My wife and I are reading through the Psalms in our evening reading and occasionally a nugget of the Psalms jumps out of the page. Don’t you love it when, after years of reading the “Old Book” passages become alive, reinforcing old teachings or simply warming your heart.

This is the book of Psalms, and it is rich.

I pray I can communicate a portion of the blessing we receive from this wonderful book.

Psalm 59

6 Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
7 There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips– for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

David’s enemies, those bloodthirsty men, came back each evening, diligently searching for their victim, howling like dogs! Howling as a frustrated hunter, these men of blood are reduced to the actions of a mere animal, growling and howling to gain some advantage. They are seeking an advantage to find their victim, hunting throughout the city, disturbing others and bellowing with thier mouths.

For these men to “bellow” is descriptive, for it includes the image of belching, of vomiting up a sickness that is internal to each of these hunters.

Is it not true that a man’s speech reveals his heart? That which is in a man comes out in his speech. For these men, to vomit out a message reveals their heart. How true the words of the Master when He taught such a hard truth!

Mark 7:21 -23

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

And what was the message these hunters spoke?

“Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

Their speech further confirms the state of their heart, for they are claiming that no one will hear them in their efforts to chase down and kill the innocent shepherd boy. Their question (out of their heart) is revealing that in their opinion their is no God, that there is no one that could hear them making their plans of death, that though they speak with daggers in their lips (murderous words!) they are safe from any repercussions.

As we consider this, let us remember that those with murder in their hearts did not only exist in the time of David.

Again I refer my gentle reader to the Lord’s message above, speaking of the source of murder, and that it is a heart issue.

from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder

In Matthew 5, He provides us the truth of how anger is equivalent to murder, how we all have this tendency resident within us.

Matthew 5:21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’
Matthew 5:22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

My friends, consider this sobering truth, that our hearts, though redeemed, continues to have a darkness that needs to be resisted through the power of the Spirit of God.

And we must remember, those outside of the Body of Christ need rescuing from this horrible existence. May the Lord guide us to meet with those who are in need of the gospel today.

Though they may speak murder, we are to speak peace.

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