Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 144:3-8 (KJB)

God knows humans as the beings He creates in His image. God knows the good natures of humans. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God knows the creative nature of humans that is capable of doing good, and all humans do some good. Isaiah 26:12 (KJB).

But all humans are subject to vanity; that is, excessive pride and emptiness. Vanity is the spiritual death within every human that they inherited from Adam's disobedience and fall. Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12-14 (KJB). Vanity causes humans to pass away, but it is only their "shadow" that passes away. Only their evil natures pass away. The good natures of humans can never pass away because God created it, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Psalm 36:6 (KJB).

The writers of the Bible sometimes wrote that humans can be totally evil and equal to nothing. But they meant by that that humans can allow their evil natures to so dominate their good natures that they lose all knowledge of God and become incapable of being able to return to faith in God and love for God. They appear to be totally evil. Romans 1:19-32; Romans 3:9-20 (KJB). But no human can ever become totally evil because if they did, then their good natures would be annulled, and they could only practice evil. Even the worst human who ever lived has done some good put into him by God to do. Isaiah 26:12 (KJB). God hates all evil. Proverbs 6:16 (KJB). Should any human become totally evil, God would lose their good nature that He created and loves to evil and spiritual death, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). The Apostle Paul wrote that humans become evil because they lose their knowledge of God, but He also wrote that humans can recover their knowledge of God and their faith in Him. Romans 3:21-31 (KJB). Jesus suffered and died on the cross to purge the Devil and all of his evil works from the good lives of all humans that He creates and loves and to return them all, sooner or later, back to faith in Him and love for Him. The Almighty Love of God cannot fail to save all humans, some by His grace and all others with a lesser form of salvation. I Corinthians 13:8; John 12:31-32; John 12:47; John 5:24; John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14; I John 3:8 (KJB).

King David then prophesied that a day will come when God will use His fiery wrath against evil to burn up His entire creation that has been infected with evil so that He can purge it all of "strange children;" that is, the Devil and all demons who are totally vain and false. God will then recreate His entire creation, including all of his recovered and recreated living humans, to be totally good and righteous. Psalm 144:3-8; II Peter 3:9-13; Romans 8:18-25; Colossians 1:12-14; Colossians 1:15-23; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:24; John 5:28-29; I John 3:8; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).