Razors

Psalm 52:1-5

Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever? 2 All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you’re an expert at telling lies. 3 You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude 4 You love to destroy others with your words, you liar! 5 But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living.

In my travel through the Bible in one year, this was the Psalm passage for today!

How appropriate in the circumstances facing our Royal family right now.

We have all been given a tongue and it can be a devastating weapon. Like it says here - it's razor sharp and can cut so very deep.

We have to be careful we don't get drawn into a fencing contest with riposte after riposte which can only ever end in damaged relationships.

It's so tempting to try to exonerate ourselves when faced with false accusations, but remember Jesus stayed silent in the face of lies at his mock trial.

Isaiah 53:7 AMPC

He was oppressed, [yet when] He was afflicted, He was submissive and opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.

Matthew 26:62-63 Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?” But Jesus remained silent.

The Bible is very clear about how we should respond to false accusations and criticisms:

If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

Galatians 5:15

No one gains anything from a knife fight except nasty scars.

One of the hallmarks of true Godly love is to never keep an account of wrongs:

1 Corinthians 13:5 AMPC

It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].

Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, but harsh words cause quarrels.