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Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Psalms 10:1-18
The "times of trouble" described in Psalms 9:9; Psalms 10:1 will be frightening. Lust, pride, unbelief, treachery, violence . . . these features which exist in the world today will reach full development when "he who now letteth" (the Holy Spirit) has been taken away, in the days of the Antichrist, whose sinister portrait is drawn for us by these verses (see 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8). Contrary, however, to the thoughts of the wicked person who reckons that God "will not require it" (vv. 4, 13), whatever he does, secretly, cunningly and maliciously, is uncovered. And whatever he says "in his heart" (vv. 6, 11, 13) is proclaimed by the One who "searcheth the hearts" (Luke 12:3). "I shall not be moved" is here the language of folly (v. 6), but it can also be that of faith (Psalms 62:6). The thought that God sees all things encourages the man of faith when he is tested; the poor can commit himself to Him (v. 14). And v. 2 contains another reassuring truth: the wicked will always be caught in his own net (cf. Psalms 7:15; Psalms 9:16).
Psalms 9:1-20 closed with the thought that the nations are "but men"; ; Psalms 10:1-18 ends by calling the persecutor "the man of the earth". Believers, let us never forget that we belong to heaven, and because of this we are beyond the reach of this world and its prince.
