The Psalmist has witnessed that the proud has been rebuked and cursed because they went astray from God’s Word, “Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments” (v 21). Err (shagah) means wander, go astray, to err, to transgress, to cause to go astray. Dear friends, you and I are proud before God when we take God’s Word lightly and fail to live according to God’s Word! We should stop doing that or else we shall be cursed! The Psalmist has also experienced the contempt and opposition from those who had position and power in society, “Princes also did sit and speak against me,” so he prayed for God’s grace and deliverance, “Remove from me reproach and contempt” (v 22). Prince (sar) means leader, commander, ruler, prince, official, captain. Dear friends, you and I should not be surprised when we are despised, rejected, opposed or persecuted although we are trying to live a good and peaceful life according to God’s Word. Let us look unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect God and the perfect Man, “the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds” (Heb 12:2-3).
Conclusion
Dear friends, do you and I acknowledge our spiritual blindness no matter how learned or scholarly we are so that we may humbly pray to the Lord with a submissive heart like a bond slave, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law”? Do you and I acknowledge that without God’s grace and goodness we cannot live nor keep His Word? This truth will keep us humble before God and submissive to Him. May the Lord graciously open our spiritual eyes so that we may see God’s love, grace, mercy, salvation, sovereign and good works in our hearts and lives and His wonderful truths from His Word so that we may love, appreciate and treasure Him and His Word more and serve Him more faithfully until the end. Amen.
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