Don’t let them get in your head

”Do not fret because of evildoers...” (Psalm 37: 1)
 
David had extensive experience with evil doers. Goliath taught him what it was like to be charged by the wicked. Saul showed him what it was like to be chased by the jealous. Absalom demonstrated to him what it was like to be challenged from within by a person in his own family. What he seems to have discovered is that it is bad enough to fight the enemy on the outside. The last thing you want to do is to let that enemy get in your head.
 
Psalm 37 sounds like David's response to someone who has become so overwhelmed by the wicked and so envious of evildoers that they have allowed those adversaries to get into and take over their thinking. Their fretting makes them virtually unable to function.
 
When you allow your enemies to get in your head it:
 
1. Blinds you to the truth. Your focus on them keeps you from being able to see the truth even though it may be quite obvious before you.
 
2. Distorts your thinking. Your preoccupation with them makes it difficult for you to think straight or rationally.
 
3. Impairs your judgment. Your lack of clarity and accurate analysis causes you to make poor decisions because of the deficiency of the data upon which they are based.
 
4. Causes you to act on emotion. Your feelings and emotions take over and override that which is rational.
 
Instead of allowing the enemy to get into your head, in his own words, David suggests that you should:
 
“Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; Do not fret-it only causes harm.” (Psalm 37:3-8)
 
Your adversaries may get in your way. Fine. Keep them in sight. Deal with them directly, but from a distance. Still, don't permit them close enough to get in your head.

Pastor Benjamin Morris 🙏🏽

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