Contemplative Bible Reading

Acts 4:25-26 (New International Version) from Psalms 2

²⁵You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:
” ‘Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
²⁶The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together
against the Lord
and against his Anointed One.

These verses are part of a prayer spoken by Peter, John, and others after Peter and John had been released arrest. These Jewish Christians were quoting from the second Psalms something prayed by David. During the time of David, kings and rulers were raging, plotting, standing, gathering and such all against the Lord.

Fast forward hundreds of years from David to the time of Peter and John and nothing new. Rulers and kings plotting and all that stuff against the Lord.

Fast forward a few dozen centuries and it isn’t hard to find the same happening today.

Don’t you think some people would get it by now? Shouldn’t some people have learned by now? Gathering against the Lord has never worked. Perhaps, just perhaps, it won’t ever work? What a waste. I am glad that such is hopeless and wasteful.