Psalm 5:12
“For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt
thou compass him as with a shield.”
In this verse, David, who is in a time of great persecution
in his life, states that our Lord will bless the righteous. Notice the blessing
he speaks of is not fame or fortune. But is the blessing of mercy and grace
from God . It is the blessing of God to protect the righteous.
Go back and read the rest of the chapter. David tells of his
enemies. David tells of the persecution he suffers at the hands of those who,
are not only trying to kill him, but are also spreading lies about him. They
were trying to turn even his closest friends and allies against him. But praise
God, God compassed David round about with a shield of protection and protected
David from those who sought to harm him.
Was this blessing for David only? No. Though we may go
through trials and tribulations and persecution in this life we have God's
promise of protection if we will love Him and follow Him.
But even for the righteous there are times of rebellion.
There are times our love for our Lord falters and we refuse to follow His
commandments.
Even David. The man after God's own heart, rebelled at
times. If though David was considered righteous he still failed at times. He
suffered chastisement from the Lord for his rebellious ways and so do we. But
God still counted him among the righteous. How? With all the evil we see in
David's life? If you read the story of David you will see he always repented of
his sin. No matter how great the sin. No matter how great the chastisement from
the Lord for the sin. David always followed the Lord's commandment and
repented.
We have been blessed with the book of Psalms. David wrote
most of the Psalms collected there. David writes of his love of our Lord. He writes
of how he knew he was not worthy of God's grace and mercy but how he was
blessed beyond measure by our Lord's faithfulness in loving him.
Where are we today? Do we grief over our sin? Do we seek
repentance for our wrongs and rebellions against our Lord? Or are we following
the ways of the world with no care of what our Lord thinks?
Child of God, seek not the world or the glories there in.
Seek our Lord and His righteousness. Seek to please the One who died to set us
free from the temptations of this life. We ought to wake every morning seeking
ways to please our Heavenly Father. We ought to be waking every morning begging
Him to forgive us of even the smallest of sins. But what are we doing? Are our
first thoughts every day of our Lord? Or are they of our job? Or is it our
graving of our first cup of coffee and/or breakfast? Or a multitude of other
things?
Seek the Lord. Follow Him in all things. Pray without
ceasing. Go to bed at night with Him on your mind and wake the next morning
with Him on your mind.
O how this is my pray for myself and all who reads this! To
be in constant communion with our Heavenly Father. To be able to push aside the
cares of this life and of this old sinful world and follow Christ and Christ
alone!!!
Praise ye the Lord!!!
Stephen McCool Sr.
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