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 ask 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
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