The Devotional - 1487 - The Testimony of the Justice of God

The Devotional – 1487 – The Testimony of the Justice of God

Psalm 119:81-88 – My soul faints for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word. My eyes fail from searching Your word, Saying, "when will You comfort me?" For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, yet I do not forget Your statutes. How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me? The proud have dug pits for me, which is not according to Your law. All Your commandments are faithful; they persecute me wrongfully; help me! They almost made an end of me on earth, but I did not forsake Your precepts. Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, so that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth. 

Comments and Challenges

All of us who call upon the LORD; that is those who TRUST the GOOD NEWS that Jesus as the sacrificial LAMB of God lived, died and IS risen from the dead by the POWER and Will of God His Father are saved and delivered from the wrath of God. This trust in God is called in scripture FAITH, personal faith that provides PEACE with God. (Romans 5:1-11 and Ephesians 2:1-10) the question one needs to ask their heart is: Do I trust the Good News that Christ died and is raised from the dead and He did THIS personally for ME? (John 1:29; John 3:3 and John 3:16) 

Of course there is another system of faith in which the whole world in under that has no personal faith in God. This system is the daily walk of those who believe in their self-appointed religion or some Satan designed religion. Both of these systems are based on WORKS; works determined by them to be worthy before God within the religion they believe in. These systems are; in accordance with the Living Word of God presently under His Wrath. This wrath is a pending final judgment of God on the world, which is already in place. John 3:17; John 3:36 and Revelation 20:11-15.

Now all of this is said to say that the writer of Psalm 119, who could easily be Jeremiah is not speaking about his personal TRUST in God and the future sacrifice of the LAMB of God. The psalmist knows the Good News; he has personally experienced THIS SALVATION. His concern in Psalm 119 is the present concern of living life daily in the world controlled by Satan’s religion or the autonomous belief that (I can do this myself and do not need God’s Word), shame on you if you are one of these camps of belief.

Spiritually the child of God is NOT concerned about his or her eternal destination, but is always spiritually concerned about the battle of facing the world system that seeks to destroy his or her image of the glory of God in them. The psalmist says that he is like something that cannot be seen by those who persecute him; that he is like a wine skin in the midst of a smoke filled room among a bunch of drunks who desire another drink (more persecution) but have trouble finding the bottle, because the palmist is clinging to the statutes of the LORD.

Psalm 19:8 – explains that the statutes of the LORD are designed to rejoice the heart, can you imagine persecution and the intensity of it on the heart of one who is rejoicing in the statutes of the LORD and how that might affect the crowd or some in the crowd; Acts 16:1-40 may help. Our trust in the LORD is not at stake, but our testimony is; if we fail to rejoice in God so will the commandant to love the sinner and hate the sin. 

The remaining section of this portion of Psalm 119 is devoted to the longevity of time or the endurance one needs to stay focused on God (when will this persecution end?) How many are the days of your servant. Have you asked the LORD for that wisdom, if not do not worry the day will come when the question falls from your lips? Have you asked God to execute judgment on the unbelieving community around you; if you are like me you have no doubt done that.

Read and study the Word of God, in doing this you will heap coals of fire on the heads of those who are in need of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Yes, we are persecuted daily even to the point of being dead, it is wrongful, hurtful and stressful; yet when we cry out to God for help. HE IS THERE. So while the world around the saint is always in need of revival; even the Child of God who needs the revival of daily revisiting the Living Word of God in order to realize the lovingkindness (grace) of God; this revival keeps our testimony STRONG in the face of the enemy.