⁴ You thrill me, Lord, with all you have done for me!
    I sing for joy because of what you have done.
⁵ O Lord, what great works you do!
    And how deep are your thoughts.
⁶ Only a simpleton would not know,
    and only a fool would not understand this:
⁷ Though the wicked sprout like weeds
    and evildoers flourish,
    they will be destroyed forever.

Psalm 92:4-7, NLT

Contemplation seems to have been stripped out of our modern lives. We move too fast, and there is always something who demands our focus and attention. To contemplate, on the other hand, is to give thoughtful attention, or long consideration to something, or someone. It is closely welded to meditation (the biblical kind.)

The psalmist drills this repeatedly into his readers. If we awake ever at all from his efforts, we will encounter a special glory and a wonderful grace. When we really start thinking about the things of God–those secret special things– we develop extraordinary strength.

Commentary

V. 4, “You thrill me, Lord, with all you have done for me!
    I sing for joy because of what you have done.

The KJV says, “For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work.”

I do like the word, “thrill” from the NLT. Can you think of a time or event that brought you a thrill? A bang, a blast, a charge? When a thrill suddenly comes it’s like fireworks over the lake on the 4th of July.

The psalmist connects this excitement to his spiritual life. A thrill has been bolted on to it and that changes everything. And that makes all the difference. The issue of “thrill-less-ness” is a tragedy of a mean and joyless faith.

V. 5, “O Lord, what great works you do!
    And how deep are your thoughts.“

We believers are not part of His fan-club. But we are His friends. We consider the Father’s work, and the thoughts that He is thinking; and we are amazed by it all.

Our heavenly Father keeps nothing for Himself, instead He loads on us. His promises are all golden, and filled with honey.

V. 6, “Only a simpleton would not know,
    and only a fool would not understand this:

All our effort to see and to know the Lord, are rewarded and esteemed. Obviously, there are those who could care less. They will never make any real effort to understand. The Bible doesn’t mince words here– they are called “simpletons and fools”.

V. 7, “Though the wicked sprout like weeds
    and evildoers flourish,
    they will be destroyed forever.”

We can assume there is a sprouting and a flourishing of a certain sort.  Wicked people and those who do evil things often have an earthly appearance of favor. But, it is just a fleeting figment, a brief shadowy kind of a life. The last sentence, “destroyed forever”, should be read with a definite sense of horror.

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ybic, Bryan

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