Psalm 2: it’s really a binary choice
How futile are all of the efforts of people, put together! What this psalm makes clear is that no matter what we do, God’s will prevails in the end. Kings and princes may “plot together against Yahweh and His anointed,” yet God will “break them, shatter them like so many pots.” There is nothing we can do to change what God has already ordained will happen to this world, and has revealed to us through prophecy. God’s will is timeless and indestructible.
Now this doesn’t mean that we don’t have free will. This psalm proves it. Obviously, people are free to choose their way, and really, there are only two ways. You can go against God, and end up “shattered”, or you can go with God, and end up “blessed”. It’s a simple, binary choice. You are either with God (1) or you are not with God (0), in which case, you end up with the chaff I mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry.
Rightfully so, this psalm enjoins us to “come to [our] senses” and to “learn [our] lesson”. Yes, the language sounds intimidating, but it’s meant to be that way in order to help us realize the gravity of the situation. We may think nothing of God now, when we can enjoy ourselves, and lose our senses in all this world has to offer, but there will come a time of reckoning, when we will face God at the final judgment, and there our “way [will truly] come to nothing.” It’s not that God relishes punishment. But after letting this wicked world run its course, He’s going to have to stamp out evil once and for all, and establish a new earth, a perfect one, like the one before the devil tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. Except this time, everyone on the new earth will have seen what the devil can do, has rejected evil ways, and won’t be tempted any more. Sin will no longer exist, and neither will the devil. Only those people who love God and His law can go there. And so He gives us a simple, binary choice: will you join Me, or end up destroyed? There can be no middle ground; there are only two possible choices. What will our choice be?
