“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own devices.” Psalm 81:12
In Today’s Psalm, Asaph is reciting God’s words concerning Israel’s past. How He delivered them from slavery, took care of them in the Wilderness, but they still would not obey Him. His assessment was “But My people did not listen to My voice, and Israel did not obey Me” and so God’s Judgement comes upon them as described in Today’s Verse.
How tragic a Judgement this is! God, in His Mercy shows us the Way we should walk, but we refuse to listen to Him and continue to disobey. What does He do? He turns us over to ourselves to do what we want instead. For the True Saint, this period will end with repentance and reconciliation. But for those that are not, a persistence in the things their hearts long for, because they have never been changed!