Psalm 21:11
11 For they intended [natah] evil [ra`] against thee:
they imagined [chashab] a mischievous device, [mazimmah] which they are not able [yakol] to perform. KJV-Interlinear
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Though they intended evil against Thee, And devised a plot, They will not
succeed. NASB
Intended, ‘natah,’ means
to stretch out as in laying out traps or snares.
Mischievous device, ‘mazimmah,’
refers to an evil plan, false sagacity, false wisdom, intent, on purpose.
People who are indifferent
toward God or truth, or reject outright, God or truth, do so intentionally.
The greater numbers of
people who reject God do so with arrogant self-righteousness, even though they
do not see themselves as arrogant or self-righteous. They presume their own ideas are better than
Gods plan and process.
They reject the idea of a
daily study under instruction. They
presume that they already know what is needed to be known, or can figure things
out for themselves.
They reject the idea of
confession. They presume that they need
only be good as they see good, and God will accept them as they are. They miss-use the phrase, ’Just as I am.’ Thus implying that they have no obligation to
obey Gods mandates, or change their own sin nature habits. Where this phrase means simply that you can
not earn or deserve anything spiritual.
God makes all of the provisions of the spiritual life, available and equally
to everyone, just as we are.
They in turn presume that
there is nothing wrong with them, or at the very least, they are able to
correct their own flaws, themselves.
And while salvation is by
faith and not of works, many people still look to some effort from themselves in
order to earn or be worthy of salvation, as well as a spiritual life after
that. They may also believe that they
can lose their salvation by committing some infraction and therefore must do
something in order to retain or earn back their salvation.
Throughout the ages,
innumerable religions, faiths, belief systems, religions, cults, philosophies, and
opinions have been invented. For
anything and everything that is not founded in truth is invented, and all of
those invented views are unattainable.
No religion, no
philosophy, etc, can attain its intended goal.
The false cannot transform itself into a truth.
There is only one way to attain
the intended completion of oneself and that is by means of Gods plan and
process.
