Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
Darkness can never overcome light. There are no ways in which created,limited and polluted men can find a way to destroy God's plan. Thus it is in vain.
God chooses David in advance to be king. And there are rebels, other kings and their armies who gather together to stop that him from being king. If only they know that they are not waging war against normal human being, but against the Almighty God. And God's promise to David were fulfilled. He just needs to have confidence in God's promise.
God principally proves his faithfulness in this, that he does not forsake the work of his own hands, but continually defends those whom he has once received into his favour. - John Calvin
What I can learn from this passage, when I relate it to my life is that about the Promise of God. We have seen God's promise to David, to make him king, and it was fulfilled. And how God's promise Israel for a Saviour, and it was also fulfilled. We have observed the Old Testaments and how the are fulfilled in the New Testaments. Every single bit of our life has God's fingerprint on it. Slowly molding and shaping us into His perfect plan. And all we need to have is confidence in Him. Stop worrying, and start surrendering all to Him. Trust in His Great Plan. If we do not submit to Him, then we are just like the nations and the peoples who conspire and plot but in vain.
I've been listening to the tape about "the doctrine of salvation" and I point that I can relate to this is that whatever bad things that happens in our life, sufferings, pain, sickness, whatever that is the opposite of good, they are not good things in disguise. It's just that God is using good things, as well as those bad things to fulfill His plan in our life. And God will never fail.
Romans 8:28And there's something we can learn from David too, the author of this Psalm. That he called himself the Anointed One, because he knew that his kingship was under God's command and authority. And He wrote this psalm also as a prophecy to the coming of Christ, the Son of God. He believes that his kingdom is a mere shadow of a greater kingdom whose king is Christ.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,who have been called according to his purpose
As usual, I would like to end off with words from Calvin, which we can still relate in this world we are living in. It might be a little bit lengthy, but I think every word speaks very clearly of God's message in this psalm :
Wicked men may now conduct themselves as wickedly as they please, but they shall at length feel what it is to make war against heaven. God is so far exalted above the men of this world, that the whole mass of them could not possibly obscure his glory in the least degree. As often, then, as the power of man appears formidable to us, let us remember how much it is transcended by the power of God. In these words there is set before us the unchangeable and eternal purpose of God effectually to defend the kingdom of his Son, of which he is the founder; and this may well support our faith amid the troublous storms of the world. Whatever plots, therefore, men may form against it, let this one consideration be sufficient to satisfy us, that they cannot render ineffectual the anointing of God.
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