Psalms 10:3 · World English Bible
Psalms 10:3 Meaning For the Wicked Boasts of His Heart’s
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
What does Psalms 10:3 mean?
The wicked here is the lower nature in a man that praises its own appetite and makes a virtue of grasping, so that the craving self honors craving and calls its hunger good. To bless the covetous is the inward act by which a person justifies his own greed, giving approval to the very pull that keeps him bound to the flesh.
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The wicked here is the lower nature in a man that praises its own appetite and makes a virtue of grasping, so that the craving self honors craving and calls its hunger good. To bless the covetous is the inward act by which a person justifies his own greed, giving approval to the very pull that keeps him bound to the flesh.
The higher law within, named the LORD, cannot abide this because grasping is exactly what the raised consciousness leaves behind. What one power in a man celebrates, the deeper power rejects, and the whole struggle is the appetite that loves itself set against the awareness that wants to be free of it.
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Live Psalms 10:3 today
- Whatever you were about to buy today because an app put it in front of you, leave it for twenty four hours. See if the wanting was yours or theirs.
- When someone tells you about something they got and you feel the pull to want it too, be glad for them out loud and leave it at that. Their good news does not have to become your shopping list.
- Next time you are about to defend something you know is just you wanting more, say plainly to yourself that this is wanting, not need. Naming it takes most of its power away.
What have you been calling drive or ambition that is really just hunger you have learned to be proud of?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism
Craving is named as the root of suffering, and the trap tightens when a person starts defending the craving as a good thing. The grasping that congratulates itself is hardest to loosen.
Tao Te Ching 44
Know when you have enough and you stop being owned by wanting. Those who cannot stop are poor no matter how much they hold.
Stoicism · Epictetus
Wealth is not having more but wanting less. The person who calls their endless wanting ambition has simply learned to praise their own chains.
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