I will listen to what God the Lord
will say; he promises peace to his people, his saints - but let them not return
to folly. (Psalm 85:12)
So what is the Lord promising? Peace,
of course! And for whom- for his saints. Well, we may not have the St. before
our names, but that is how God sees us and that is how God wants us to be.
But look at the last part of the
verse. It says, "let not the saints return to folly." Saints and
folly do not go together. It sounds so un-saintely.
Yet, that's the truth. The Apostle
Paul, in some of his letters to different churches begins by addressing the
believers in those churches as saints and then goes on to pen their present
follies. And the list of follies is quite long.
This is what Paul wrote to the holy
and faithful brethren in Colosse:
Put to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires
and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You
used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid
yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and
filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken
off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is
being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. (Colossians 3:5-10)
The last part explains it all. It's
all about renewal. Being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
So let us not return to folly, but
submit ourselves to God and experience the peace that comes from that
submission.
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