Text: “Stir up Thyself, and
awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Judge me, O Lord my God, according to Thy
righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.”
Psalm 35:23-24.
Good
morning, protected Christian! The
Lord God Who has sent His only begotten Jesus to suffer so infinitely in your
place and mine is not about to give up on us; leave us destitute; or without
His Divine protection when enemies beset themselves against us. No!
The Spirit of God within us guides us to cry out a plea for much needed
Divine protection, which is always given.
Praise God for His protecting hand!
Our Plea: “Be merciful unto me,
O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for
they be many that fight against me, O Thou Most High.” (Psalm 56:1-2)
Our Guidance: “What time I am
afraid, I will trust in Thee. In God I
will praise His Word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh
(earthly enemies) can do unto me.” (Psalm
56:3-4)
Verse
23. “Stir up Thyself, and awake to my
judgement. The Psalmist David, in his alarm at the opposition he is facing, seems to
be speaking both to himself and to the Lord God. He seems to be saying to himself, ‘Stir up
thyself! Call out immediately to the
Lord God for His Divine help!’ At the
same time he is asking the Lord to ‘Awake to my judgement.’, or in other words,
‘Lord, You have chosen me to be your servant and anointed me to be king of
Israel – if You have thus saw fit to do so, and have already judged my sins,
and declared me not guilty, then hear my plea and send me Your help in my time
of need.’
“He
that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all (all God’s chosen
people.), how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32)
Verse
23. “My God and My Lord” David, in the inspiration of God
the Holy Ghost, is here setting forth a great mystery that would be repeated by
the disciple Thomas when the Lord Jesus appeared to those gathered together in
fear in the Upper Room. Both David and
Thomas are stating a profound theological fact concerning the dual nature of
the incarnated Jesus Christ: Jesus was born at Bethlehem, but the Christ, the
Word of God, has always been, always will be, and always is Eternal Son of the
Living Lord God. He is in fact, ‘the
God-man', Jesus Christ; my Lord and my God.
“Then
said He (Christ Jesus) to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands;
and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless,
but believing. And Thomas answered and
said unto Him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou
hast seen Me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet
have believed.” (John 20:26-29)
Verse
24. “Judge me, O lord my God, according
to Thy righteousness; and let them (his enemies) not rejoice over me.” If
believers are imputed the very righteousness of Christ by faith, then when the
Lord God ‘judges’ us, He must judge us ‘…according to Thy righteousness…’, NOT
GUILTY!
In
other words, the Psalmist is here claiming, by faith and belief, the fact that
God has chosen him to receive the righteousness of Christ Himself, and having
such a gift of imputed (put to his account) righteousness, he cannot fail to
come up to the standard God has ordained. This is pure Divine logic!
The
enemies of Christ and of Christians will never understand this great fact: that
the Lord God has chosen to make ‘His people’ righteous, in the very
righteousness of Christ Jesus Himself, and all through the great Atonement
Sacrifice of His dear Son, Jesus, at Calvary’s Cross. Hallelujah!
What a Saviour! We are justified
in Christ!
“For
He (God the Father) hath made Him (God the Son) to be sin for us, Who knew no
sin; that we (God’s elect people) might be made the righteousness of God in
Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)
It
is because of this imputed righteousness as a believer, that David can make
this reasoned plea to the Lord God for His Divine help. He is here saying, ‘Lord, you have made me
righteous by granting me faith to believe and receive Your Salvation. Therefore, judge the righteousness You have
put to my account, and if it be genuine, please send me your help against my
enemies, let them not rejoice in victory over me.’
“And
the Blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I
see the Blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to
destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”
(Exodus 12:13)
“Forasmuch
as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and
gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers: but
with the precious (sinless) Blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot. Who verily (truly) was
foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last
times for you.” (1 Peter 1:18-20)
Verse 25. “Let them (God’s enemies) not say in their
hearts, Ah, so would we have it.” If God be Sovereign, and His will be done on
earth, as it is in Heaven – then God’s enemies, and as such our enemies also,
cannot cause their will to overcome us.
It is God’s will, revealed in His inspired Word, illuminated by His Holy
Spirit, that was, is, and always shall be, done.
Glory to His Sovereign Name!
Hallelujah!
Thought: In Christ’s Sovereign Victory – the Christian
shall always prevail! All glory to the Lord God Jehovah: our Sovereign, our
Saviour, and our Lord!
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