TRUTH!!!

Today on Day 19 of this thankful month I am thankful for 2 Timothy 2:15. 

2 Timothy 2: 15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

I know how to rightly divide the word of truth! Thank God for a discerning spirit.  So, I was over at the community forum on www.essence.com/community and there was a discussion on a T-shirt.  Being the intellectual individual that I am I clicked on this discussion board and low and behold they were referring to Obama.  Some radical, liberal Christains yes I said it Christains have screen printed shirts for sale that say "PRAY FOR OBAMA Psalm 109:8".  Nothing wrong with that until you read the verse.

Psalms 109 reads:

1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
28Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

Now, that you are familar with the verse.  They are really trying to say "Kill the President".  I know there have been many "ANTI-OBAMA" groups out there even before he was elected POTUS.  However, when did believers so called "christians" start hating on Obama even using biblical scriptures to state their argument? Yes, I know that everyone has the right of free speech but where do we draw the line.  As a christain woman I don't find this funny, amusing, or hilarious.  I find this offensive, demeaning, and devaluing my beliefs in Christ and his word.  If you read the entire passage of Psalm 109 and understand where David was coming from in writing this chapter you could decifer the truth.  Psalm 109 is "A cry for venegance" chapter where David does call upon God to destory his enemies, however; there are so many other passages in the bible where this happens.  Psalms 137:7-9, Jeremiah 18:19-23, Revelation 6:9-10 just to name a few.  So, I challenge us to look first to the God to whom these prayers were addressed and His Spirit who inspired them, and then to the text itself for His message to us. May we not quickly disregard the stern warning of this psalm. Lets rightly divide word of truth.

How do you feel about these Obama t-shirts? Do you know how to discern false information from the truth relating to the bible?

Google Psalms 109 or check out this article.
Keep the Faith!
Until next time,
~E