Psalm 94
¹ O LORD, the God who avenges, O God who avenges, shine forth.
² Rise up, O Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve.
³ How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked be jubilant?
⁴ They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers are full of boasting.
⁵ They crush your people, O LORD; they oppress your inheritance.
⁶ They slay the widow and the alien; they murder the fatherless.
⁷ They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
⁸ Take heed, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?
⁹ Does he who implanted the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see?
¹⁰ Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches man lack knowledge?

¹¹ The LORD knows the thoughts of man; he knows that they are futile.
¹² Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD, the man you teach from your law;
¹³ you grant him relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance.
¹⁵ Judgment will again be founded on righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?
¹⁷ Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.
¹⁸ When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your love, O LORD, supported me.

¹⁹ When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul.
²⁰ Can a corrupt throne be allied with you one that brings on misery by its decrees?
²¹ They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

²² But the LORD has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge.
²³ He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the LORD our God will destroy them.

The cry for vengeance started back in Genesis 4:10 “The LORD said, ‘What have you done?’ Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground” or as stated in Hebrews 11:4 “By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead”. When studying the events in Genesis chapter four one will notice that when God did not look at favor on Cain’s offering that Cain became angry. However, God still came to him and offered him a way back. “If you do what is right will you not be accepted”.

But if Cain did not want to do that which was right when then God stated “but if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it However, Cain did let sin master him and in his angry killed his brother. Wickedness has a way of controlling us, but God has provided a way out and that is through Christ.

In I John 3: 11-12 “For this is the message which we heard from the beginning that we should love one another: “not as Cain was of the evil one and slew his brother. And therefore, slew he him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous” reveals the difference between the way Cain lived and the way Abel lived. This difference of the two ways has been with us from the beginning of time. The only difference between these two different ways or walks is their relationship with God. The ungodly way can be characterized as godless, in other word it is a way that does not include God at all. The godly way does include God. In this psalm we see examples of God’s judgment on both ways. In verse 23 God repays the wicked for sins by destroying them. In verse 12 the way of the righteous is blessed by God’s discipline which teaches them his law. Your walk then is determined by whether you include God in it or whether you chose to keep God out of it. This is your chose. However, the end of your walk and the reward that you will at the end of this walk will be determined by God. So, chose wisely.