Psalm 7 ~ If You Feed It, It Will Grow

“Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.” (Psalm 7:14 ESV)

As David describes so vividly in this Psalm, evil enters into man and plants it’s seed. Like any living thing if you feed it, it will grow. So wicked man continues to feed this evil inside him.

Like a pregnant mother nourishes her baby with what she takes into her body, a wicked man nourishes the sin growing inside him by feeding it with more sin.

Soon the wicked man gives birth to the sin inside him by his outward actions. Lies, cheating, deceit are now part of him. Sin isn’t something we do, it’s something we are. If we kill, we are a murderer. If we steal, we are a thief.

If the wicked man does not repent and ask God to forgive him of his sins, then he is powerless against sin. Sin overcomes and takes control of the man and fills his heart, mind and soul with evil.

Guess what? You and I are born as wicked men. If we are not filled with the Holy Spirit then we are slaves to sin and are bound by Satan and his minions. The good news is Christ saves us from that. Christ died on the cross so that we would have the ability to choose not to sin. Sin still enters our lives, and temptations to sin will always be there, but as believers in Christ we have the ability to choose not to get pregnant with sin. If we do not feed the sin that enters into our bodies by what we see and hear, then it we won’t reflect sin in what we say and do.

Garbage in, garbage out. Jesus in, Jesus out. Choose wisely my friend.

"O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
O LORD my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
if I have repaid my friend with evil
or plundered my enemy without cause,
let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.
The LORD judges the peoples;
judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,
O righteous God!
My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
He makes a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
His mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.
I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High."
(Psalm 7 ESV)