SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/16/2012 7:49:30 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Blessed Assurance
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Psalm 119:121-128
Message of the verses: 121 ¶
Ayin. I have done justice and righteousness; Do not leave me to my
oppressors. 122 Be surety for Your
servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me. 123 My eyes fail with
longing for Your salvation And for Your righteous word. 124 Deal with Your servant according to Your
lovingkindness And teach me Your statutes. 125 I am Your servant; give me
understanding, That I may know Your testimonies. 126 It is time for the LORD to
act, For they have broken Your law. 127 Therefore I love Your commandments
Above gold, yes, above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem right all Your
precepts concerning everything, I hate every false way.”
Dr. Wiersbe
points out that for the first time in this psalm we see the word oppressors or
oppresses as they are found in verses 121, 122 & 134. The word means that there is someone who is oppressing
or taking advantage of the underprivileged in Israel which goes against the Law
of the Lord that is found in Lev. 25:14, 17; Deut. 24:5-22. Dr. Wiersbe writes at the end of his
introductory commentary on this section these words, “Often, God’s people
suffer oppression while the guilty go free.
When that happens, we need to remember the Lord and what He does for us.”
The Lord is the Rewarder (v. 121): “. I have done justice and righteousness; Do
not leave me to my oppressors.”
This verse
reminds me a bit of Job as he also states his case to the Lord that he was innocent
of any wrong doing as the psalmist does in this section. He wants to see those who are oppressing him
to receive justice from the Lord as all believers want to see. When God rewards His children this will be a
sign to those who are not His children that there will be a day when they receive
their just rewards too and that will be in the form of God’s perfect justice.
The Lord is our Surety (v. 122): “122
Be surety for Your servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.”
I don’t see
any words that are speaking of God’s Word in verses 121 & 122.
Surety is
seen as an example from the book of Genesis when Jacob did not want Benjamin to
go to Egypt his son Judah willingly became surety for him stating that if anything
happened to Benjamin Jacob could do something to Judah’s children. The Bible
teaches that we are not to be surety for another person’s debt, but it also
teaches that the Jews were to lend money to other Jews without any interest
charged.
Jesus
Christ became surety for those who have trusted Him as Lord and Savior, “so
much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant (Heb.
7:22).” Dr. Wiersbe writes “No matter
what people do to us and no matter how we feel, our Surety is secure and we
remain in the family of God. Jesus has
taken the responsibility for our salvation, and He will never fail.”
The Lord is our Master (vv. 123-125): “123 My eyes fail with longing for Your
salvation And for Your righteous word. 124
Deal with Your servant according to Your lovingkindness And teach me Your
statutes. 125 I am Your servant; give me understanding, That I may know Your
testimonies.”
When people
attack believers they are attacking the Lord and an example of this can be seen
in the ninth chapter of Acts when the risen Lord as Saul of Taurus why he was
persecuting Him, and because Saul was persecuting the children of the Lord he
was persecuting the Lord. Now this does
not mean that the Lord stops all people from oppressing His children, but when
He does allow this He has a good reason for it, and will one day give justice
to those doing the oppressing. Dr. Wiersbe
states, “God’s servants do not live by explanations; they live by promises.”
The Lord is the Final Judge (vv. 126-128): “126 It is time for the LORD to act, For they
have broken Your law. 127 Therefore I love Your commandments Above gold, yes,
above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem right all Your precepts concerning
everything, I hate every false way.”
This is the
verses that believer can take hold of when they are being oppressed for in
these verses the psalmist is asking the Lord to act upon those who have broken
His Law. Now we know that the Bible
teaches that we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, but it also
teaches that the Lord Jesus Christ has fulfilled the Law perfectly while He was
on earth and because of this all of those who belong to Him, because they are “in
Christ” have also fulfilled the Law. The
psalmist is speaking of those who are unbelievers in this section who have
broken the Law of God and desires the Lord to give justice to them. We have to remember that God’s ways and God’s
times are not always the same as ours.
We see from Hebrews 6:12 that faith and patience go together “so that
you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience
inherit the promises.”
Dr. Wiersbe
concludes with these words, “If we love the Word, we will hate the wrong paths
of sinners and stay away from them. We
do not even put one foot on the path of the wicked! (Prov. 1:13).”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Loving God’s Word and not putting one
foot on the path that the unbelievers tread is something that I desire to do.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Continue in my memorizing the
13th chapter of 1Cor, which speaks of what love is so that I can
practice real love.
Memory verses for the week:
1Cor. 13:1-7
1 ¶ If I speak with the tongues of men and of
angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and
know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the
poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits
me nothing.
4 ¶ Love is patient, love is kind and is not
jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek
its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but
rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
9/16/2012 8:26:27 AM
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