SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/31/2012 7:20:51 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 109 PT-2
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Psalm 109:6-20
Message of the verses: Two days ago we looked at the first part
of Psalm 109 and we stated that it was written by David, and that it is the
last of the imprecatory psalms. It is
also a Messianic psalm for we see in this psalm verses that speak of Judas, who
betrayed Jesus. As I read this psalm I can
see that David was very angry with someone, and it was a righteous anger that
David had for he was the anointed king of Israel and to do harm to him meant
that his line would be stopped, and it was in his line that the Messiah would
be born. We know that God’s anger is
always a righteous anger and Psalm 109 is a part of God’s Word which shows His
righteous anger.
Lord, Judge the Enemy! (vv. 6-20): Ҧ
Appoint a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right
hand. 7 When he is judged, let him come
forth guilty, And let his prayer become sin. 8
Let his days be few; Let another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless And his wife a
widow. 10 Let his children wander about
and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes. 11 Let the creditor seize all that he has, And
let strangers plunder the product of his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend lovingkindness to
him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; In a following
generation let their name be blotted out. 14
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And do
not let the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, That
He may cut off their memory from the earth; 16
Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, But persecuted the
afflicted and needy man, And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.
17 He also loved cursing, so it came to
him; And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him. 18 But he clothed himself with cursing as with
his garment, And it entered into his body like water And like oil into his
bones. 19 Let it be to him as a garment
with which he covers himself, And for a belt with which he constantly girds
himself. 20 Let this be the reward of my
accusers from the LORD, And of those who speak evil against my soul.”
As I read
these verses I can see why they could be said of Judas, for Judas spent three
years with the Lord Jesus Christ while He was on earth teaching, preaching and
healing many thousands of people demonstrating that He was indeed the Messiah
and Judas betrayed Him to the Jewish leaders so that He might die.
Dr. Wiersbe
states that there are some who would try to take the barbs out of this prayer
by making the words from 6-20 spoken by the enemies of David, but this is not
the case for this prayer was prayed by David against his enemies. In the book of Jeremiah chapter 18 we read
the following, “18 ¶ Then they said,
"Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not
going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to
the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give
no heed to any of his words." 19 Do
give heed to me, O LORD, And listen to what my opponents are saying! 20 Should good be repaid with evil? For they
have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You To speak good on their
behalf, So as to turn away Your wrath from them. 21 Therefore, give their children over to famine And deliver them up to
the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let
their men also be smitten to death, Their young men struck down by the sword in
battle. 22 May an outcry be heard from
their houses, When You suddenly bring raiders upon them; For they have dug a
pit to capture me And hidden snares for my feet. 23 Yet You, O LORD, know All their deadly
designs against me; Do not forgive their iniquity Or blot out their sin from
Your sight. But may they be overthrown before You; Deal with them in the time
of Your anger!”
We do not
see any rebuke from the Lord for this prayer that Jeremiah prayed. There is another portion of Scripture that is
part of the Law and perhaps David was praying this prayer in conjunction with
it (Lev. 26:14-39).
People love
to look at the love of God, and God is love, but God is also just and so it is
because of God’s justice that things like this happen. Sin is offensive to God and the wages of sin
is death, and so a person has to decide whether they are going to trust the
death of Jesus Christ as payment for their sins of pay for their own sins by
their death. We know that David was
trusting in God for the forgiveness of his sins and that someday future from David
a Messiah would be born who would care for David’s sin problem and ours too.
There is a
progression in who David is talking to in this section for the shifts from they
and them to he, him and his in verses 6-7.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “David focused his prayer on the leader of the evil
band that was attacking him, and he asked God to appoint a judge or prosecuting
attorney as wicked as the defendant himself!
After all the way we judge others is the way we ourselves will be judged
(Matt. 7:1-2). Or perhaps he wanted
Satan himself to be there (Zech. 3:1-ff).
David expected the Lord to stand at his right hand to defend him (v. 31;
16:8). Our Savior is enthroned at the
right hand of God and intercedes for us (110:1; Acts 2:25, 34; Rom 8:34).”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: As I look at this prayer that David prays and
how he prayed for the entire family of this cruel person I can’t help but think
of what happened to our family yesterday in the opposite way of this family
David speaks of. It was yesterday around
12:15 PM that our family gathered around our dying mother and began to pray for
he as she was ending her time here on earth and while we gathered around her
she breathed her last and very peaceably proceeded to pass on into glory. I think that as she did this she may have
been able to see us praying for her as she so very often prayed for us. To God be the Glory great things He has done!
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Believe that God will give us
the grace as we mourn the loss of our mother.
Memory verses for the week:
2Peter 1:1-8
1.
Simon
Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, by the righteousness of our
God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 2. Grace and peace be
multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3. seeing that
His divine promises have granted to us everything pertaining to life and
righteousness, in the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4. For
by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by
them you can become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption which is in the world by lust.
5. Now for
this reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral
excellence, and in your moral excellence knowledge, 6. and in your knowledge,
self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance,
godliness, 7. and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness
love. 8. For if these qualities are
yours, and are increasing, they render your neither useless nor unfruitful in
the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
7/31/2012 8:46:02 AM
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