January 16
Psalms 119:21-22 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. (22) Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Do you know someone whose life seems to be a never-ending strand of wrong decisions? One who never fails to go against God and conscience? One whose head is proud,’ bloody and unbowed’? It is wise to watch and be warned, oh yea Child of God, to watch and be warned. At the end of our lives, we will see it. We will either see the matured evil fruit of all our self projected futile labors, or worse yet, the dry, parched, famine-stricken, lonely barrenness of a life passing away and taking with it a bad dream that cries to be forgotten. We hear in this passage the pronouncement of the divine curse against ‘proud’.
If we watch, if we learn from the wisdom of the sages, we find a lesson, yea a parable as we read the epitaph on the tombstone of the unbowed.
When the day of ‘reproach’ and ‘contempt’ comes, bringing with it endless accusations and condemnations, let us contend with the evil one, the accuser of the saints. Let us, donned in the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:13) wave at him the precious sword (Ephesians 6:17) with the Words of the contract established by God, the contract signed in the blood of His precious Son. Let us now live a life that will answer the devil and say, “Not so, foul fiend; get thee behind me Satan. I rebuke you and all your accusations. I have kept His testimonies; the blood of the Holy Son of God is on my soul; I have not loved my life unto death; Jesus bought and paid for all my sins, and even now He stands at the right hand of the throne of God interceding and atoning for my mistakes”.
Revelations 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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