Proverbs 16:10
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Oh for the beauty of God’s Word; for the infallibility of His judgments, truth and justice on earth. Soon, by His grace, they will cover the earth as the waters cover the seas.
This proverb has often been interpreted as describing a King or Pope’s infallibility when in the judgment seat. Religious leaders also borrow from it to claim authority on their pulpit declarations. History though, testifies to the fallibility of humankind, even when in office. This verse therefore can only be testifying of the infallibility in judgment of the great King of kings Agent of creation, who will soon come and restore all things to their original state: Yeshua Hamashiach. Hebrew doesn’t have capital letters, but the English should have probably been written as ‘. . . the lips of the King;’
The Messiah/King of the universe is the only One whose lips are clean because He is the only One whose heart is sinless. Our human state would love to emulate that spiritual cleanliness but we seem to always be bound to the sins of our lips. The apostle James actually states that only the perfectly pure in heart doesn’t sin with his lips. Most of the time on this earth, we are left with reaping the results of our blabbering mouth, getting ourselves deeper and deeper into the sinking sands of verbal offense even as we try to keep control of seemingly runaway situations around us. And the more responsibility we have the worse it gets. Most of the time the best policy for us human beings is to ‘keep quiet and let go’. Sad to say, we often come to that wise realization after the damage is done.
May we learn to speak like and by the King. May we learn to let the only One who doesn’t sin be the mover of our lips through the clean motions of His heart within us. Like the Ark of old, let the space of our hearts be filled with the Table of the Testimony, so it can emanate its quiet verbal powers unto the people.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Oh for the beauty of God’s Word; for the infallibility of His judgments, truth and justice on earth. Soon, by His grace, they will cover the earth as the waters cover the seas.
This proverb has often been interpreted as describing a King or Pope’s infallibility when in the judgment seat. Religious leaders also borrow from it to claim authority on their pulpit declarations. History though, testifies to the fallibility of humankind, even when in office. This verse therefore can only be testifying of the infallibility in judgment of the great King of kings Agent of creation, who will soon come and restore all things to their original state: Yeshua Hamashiach. Hebrew doesn’t have capital letters, but the English should have probably been written as ‘. . . the lips of the King;’
The Messiah/King of the universe is the only One whose lips are clean because He is the only One whose heart is sinless. Our human state would love to emulate that spiritual cleanliness but we seem to always be bound to the sins of our lips. The apostle James actually states that only the perfectly pure in heart doesn’t sin with his lips. Most of the time on this earth, we are left with reaping the results of our blabbering mouth, getting ourselves deeper and deeper into the sinking sands of verbal offense even as we try to keep control of seemingly runaway situations around us. And the more responsibility we have the worse it gets. Most of the time the best policy for us human beings is to ‘keep quiet and let go’. Sad to say, we often come to that wise realization after the damage is done.
May we learn to speak like and by the King. May we learn to let the only One who doesn’t sin be the mover of our lips through the clean motions of His heart within us. Like the Ark of old, let the space of our hearts be filled with the Table of the Testimony, so it can emanate its quiet verbal powers unto the people.
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