Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts. – Psalm 28:3
There’s a type of person out there who blends so well that they can pass themselves off as “good” to the naked eye; but you know and I know that deep down inside they are rotten and their intentions are pure evil! An example of this would be Cinderella’s evil stepmother who was so dirty and rotten to Cinderella but appeasingly charming to the king’s people. To everybody except Cinderella, the stepmother probably looked like a saint, taking in her stepdaughter even after her late husband passed. But Cinderella and those mice knew otherwise. Or a non-Disney example would be of a cat. Cats act cute and peaceable in public, but when you’re left alone with them… yeah, you know how that story ends. But being around these types of people isn’t even our greatest fear. Our greatest fear is that we’ll be looked upon by other and by God as if we’re one of these types of people. Here is the truth of the matter, we all know who those people are, that are filled with peaceable malice– the two-faced– they are us! And it bothers us that we are sometimes two-faced. Obviously because we know the standard that we don’t and won’t live up to. Like the Psalmist does in this passage, we ask God not to lump us into this category of falling short. The root of being two-faced is simple: we want to look good and appear good even when we’re not and that vulnerability is what causes us to do two faced things. It is a peaceable malice within ourselves. We want peace in our hearts and so we maleficently act and overcompensate. We have to remember despite this that God is where our heart needs to trust and rely. We can’t ever help ourselves so this call to God is for us to to stop harboring evil and pleasantries at the same time and lean into God really hard to settle the malice in hearts and make true peace for us, His anointed. There is only one way God won’t drag us off with the other two-faced people in the world and that is if we allow Him to be our shepherd and trust that He will carry us in our inabilities to where we belong. Will you allow God to settle the faux peace and evil malice within you today?
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