April 30
Psalms 119:139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
When he saw people who should have known better, forget the Lord who has made them and loves them so much, David grieved to the point of self-consumption. His zeal for following the Lord was a consuming fire within him (Hebrews 12:29). His enemies were not defined by the prejudices of geographical boundaries or by religious sectarianism; they were simply the ungodly, the people who despised God’s Words no matter who they were:
Today, there is a crowd of people with a “victim mentality”. There is a crowd of people who’d rather find fault in God rather than change their twisted behavior. These people would brand someone projecting David’s attitude towards iniquity as self-righteous and intolerant. The disheartening element in this, is that there are even Christians in this crowd; Christians who prefer to be in good standing with the world rather than promote God’s standards. They respond to this emotional blackmail by lowering the concepts of Godliness. They also degrade Godliness to a humanistic man-promoting and man-pleasing set of rituals.
The whole idea is not about how much we hate evil, which is nevertheless the fear of the Lord (Proverbs 8:13), but it is that we love God so much, that it hurts us to see people blaspheme His name. Just like when we really love someone, we think that they are the best of the best in the world, and we feel grieved if someone else doesn’t like them.
Psalms 97:10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
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