Zimon
Puritan Board Freshman
Hello,
Probably a typical newbie question, but for I did not find an answer via the searching tool...
When I pray psalms that include hate against your enemys or the enemys of God, how should I interpete those?
For example:
"Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies." (Psalm 139,21-22)
My problem is whenever I read and pray verses like those, I think of my "enemys" and find myself expressing my hate for them... But this can hardly be how I should read those, I guess, for it would be of course better to pray for those who hate God or who hate me and ask God to change her heart than to "curse" them and hope for their soon death.
How should we interprete those?
Probably a typical newbie question, but for I did not find an answer via the searching tool...
When I pray psalms that include hate against your enemys or the enemys of God, how should I interpete those?
For example:
"Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies." (Psalm 139,21-22)
My problem is whenever I read and pray verses like those, I think of my "enemys" and find myself expressing my hate for them... But this can hardly be how I should read those, I guess, for it would be of course better to pray for those who hate God or who hate me and ask God to change her heart than to "curse" them and hope for their soon death.
How should we interprete those?