Daily Devotion

May 13, 2006

Psalms 119:153-154 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.  (154) Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

The prosecutor of this world has come to the throne of the great Judge of all (Job 1:6-12).  He has found fault, he has found wickedness in you.  He expounds the case before the God of the universe without forgetting a single element.  He *twists facts like the wick of a candle; he supports his case with false witnesses (Mat 26:60).  

Appear now before the throne of the Eternal Judge.  What will you plead?  Will you bring your fleshly works before Him to prove the goodness of your heart?  Will justify your case with a show of religiosity?  Will you show Him wrong,  and proclaim that you do not deserve the worst of all punishment (Psa 51:4)?

Guilty, yea, you will plead guilty.  There is no other plea for you.  “How can he be clean that is born of a woman”? (Job 25:4).  From the foundations of the world, before you were created, you were born to be found guilty…and to be justified.

But, oh, what a comfort we have in a Defense Attorney who has conquered the death of guilt.  What a relief, what a sigh to know that we have One who will stand for us as the standard (Is 59:19) of God’s Word of grace and **mercy. Let Him battle with the lying prosecutor, let Him prove him to be the liar that he is.  He will not absolve you from your mistakes nor from your sins--justice will be served--but as a tender and wiser older brother, He will take upon Himself the price of your foolish youthful pranks and deliver you from “the snare of the fowler” (Psa 91:3).

*The word “wicked” comes from the twisting of a candle “wick”.

** Mercy:  Undeserved forgiveness.

Psalms 91:2-4  I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.  (3)  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.  (4)  He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.