Daily Devotion Psa 119.78

March 8, 2006

Psa 119:78 KJV Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

How many children of God today are recipients of the wrath of the proud?  What is the justification for this wrath, if there is a one?  

Is it that these persecuted ones dare to confront the ways of man?  Maybe they have challenged the humanistic values of modern society?  Could it be that they announced moral absolutes?  Or did they have the audacity to present other ways than that of the status quo?

“Pride” in his rebellion does everything he can to obliterate the ways of God and promote the ways of man.  Whenever one challenges him, without searching a justifiable cause, he rebels with perverse venom against the bearers of the challenge.  In his denial of God’s Word, pride also forgets that he has no future: that it is the meek that will inherit the earth (Mat 5:5) while he will be ruled with a rod of iron (Rev 19:15).  

Oh, that God’s righteousness would be given a voice, what would she say? Wouldn’t she say, “Fear not little flock it is my Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom”; (Luke 12:32) that the meek shall delight themselves in an abundance of peace (Psa 37:11)?  That if you suffer with Him you shall also reign with Him (2 Tim 2:12) for these tribulations are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed in us (Rom 8:18)?

Let your children resist the voice of the ungodly, take refuge in the tower of your Words.  It is the double-edged sword that comes out of your mouth that will establish your righteousness on earth as the waters cover the sea.

1Pe 3:16-17 KJV  Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.  (17)  For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.