“O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.” Psalm 83:1 NLT
The writer, Asaph, makes an appeal to the Lord as the neighbouring nations would love nothing better than to destroy Israel, along with the memory of its very existence. God’s people were continually under attack then, just as we are in spiritual battles today.
Knowing that God is all powerful and able to baffle attacks against the church to the point of stopping them before they happen, we just want Him to do that. I have often told my kids that “there’s a method to my madness”. Well the Lord has a method too:
“Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.” Psalm 83:18 NLT
He makes things happen in His perfect timing so that all will come to know who He is.
Lock Your Wings 
Interesting to think that though God’s mercy and grace is extended to all and yet in the Old Testament there appears to be little redemption for so many: “these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites; Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre, the Midianites
Psalms 83:6-7, 9 NLT
All these tribes of people are mentioned as enemies of Israel and perhaps that’s why there’s no redeeming them but the New testament proclaims that all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory and yet there is forgiveness for those that ask. Do these nations simply refuse to ask?
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