The psalmist is looking toward the time when the Lord will reign and we will rejoice. He is encouraging people, in the waiting, that we live like He is coming today.
I love clouds...God's return is pictured as coming in on the clouds (Revelation 1:7). When the sky is full of awesome clouds, I often imagine what that will look like...because the whole world will see it. How huge will He be? Will it look just like His face at first, then get bigger? Will we see thousands, the faithful, coming behind Him? It fascinates me. In this psalm, clouds and thick darkness are meant to depict His awesome power (v.2). The fire in verse 3, His consuming judgement.
While I could get lost in my head imagining, I love the application the psalmist gives us. To not sit and in our own heads picture and learn...but to get out there and do. Many times in the Bible, we are told to love. Love God first, but to love others. To live like we're not of this world that so often exudes hateful actions and words. He's not calling us to vigilantism. He is the Judge. We are not. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. must have had this in mind when he said, "Darkness can't drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can't drive out hate; only love can do that."
So, how do we hate evil? We love. So simple. So simple, but not always so easy. I have had to lay down people that have done evil and let them go. It is too burdensome to carry. Then I think of Jesus when He washed the feet of His disciples...He humbled Himself, got on the ground and loving cleaned the feet of the very one who would later betray Him looking on Judas with nothing but love because He knew the evil Judas chose would be his own undoing. In the end, the evil shown to us is temporary. He has already given us the ultimate victory...HIM. We get Him, for eternity. So, let's love one another in our own corner of our worlds. That's how He wants us to find us when He rides in on those clouds.
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