Psalm 37:29.
Good morning, Eternally blessed Christian! Having been blessed by the Lord God Jehovah
with Eternal Salvation in and through Christ Jesus and His full Atonement
(at-one-ment) at Calvary’s Cross – you and I are completely and fully assured
of Almighty God’s Sovereign care of us and His ever-given provision. Hallelujah!
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He (God the Father) that spared not His own
Son, but delivered Him up for us all (all the elect!), how shall He not with
Him also freely give us all things?”
(Romans 8:31-32)
The blessings of God upon ‘the just’, those justified
by faith in Christ Jesus, are of an Eternal nature – and, by God’s Sovereign
grace, are freely given to us, ‘His people’.
Verse 23. “The
steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.
The Scriptures teach us
that ‘...there in none that doeth good, no not one... (Romans 3:10-18). Therefore, the only persons defined as
‘good’, are those unto whom the Lord God imputes the very righteousness of
Christ Jesus Himself by faith. (2
Corinthians 5:21) This ‘good’ person’s
steps, our every step in life, is ‘ordered’, or ordained, by our Sovereign Lord
God. That is why ‘...ALL things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according
to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28)
Notice, it is not all GOOD things that work together
for our good! No. ALL things, good, bad, and indifferent,
because our ‘steps’ are ‘ordered’ by the Lord – are made to eventually ‘work
together for good’, if we ‘...love the Lord and are THE called according to His
purpose.’ Hallelujah! What a Lord God we have in Christ Jesus!
Verse 24.
“Though he/she fall, he/she shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord
upholdeth (continuous verb - upholds, and continues to uphold) him/her with His
hand. The times of every creature on earth is determined by
Almighty God, that is why the writer to the Hebrews (I believe that writer to
be the apostle Paul) teaches us, (under the inspiration of God the Spirit.)
“...It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement.”
(Hebrews 9:27)
This is an ‘appointment’ the Lord makes with the soul
of every creature under His Creation, and we all must keep His appointment with
death. Similarly, the Lord God is in
Sovereign control of every tiny aspect of every creature’s life – and our
confidence therefore is in His Divine ability to ‘uphold’ us, His people, with
His hand in every circumstance we encounter in life. Praise God for His Eternal uplifting!
Verse 25. “Nor
his seed begging bread. If any man say that David himself begged – he
asked bread of Abimelech and of Nabal – I answer, it is a good rule, and it
resolves the case; transitory cases and sudden accidents make no beggars: we
must not say, ‘David was a beggar, or begged his bread,’ because once he was in
a strait and asked bread of Abimelech and in a second strait sent to Nabal. In such sudden cases, the richest man in the
world may be put to ask a piece of bread.
A good man may fall into such wants, but good men are rarely, if ever or
at all, left in them.” (Joseph Caryl
1602-1673)
Verse 26. “He
(the good man, the ‘elect’ of God) is ever merciful, and lendeth: and his seed
(his children and posterity) is blessed. Again we are taught the Eternal nature of God’s special blessings upon
‘His people’. (Matthew 1:21) Thomas Adams strongly confirms the Eternal
nature of God’s blessings upon those whom He saves: “Trust, then, Christ with thy children; when
thy friends shall fail, usury bear no date, oppression be condemned to Hell,
thyself rotten to the dust, the world itself turned and burned into cinders,
still “Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, and today, and forever.” (Thomas Adams 1614) (Hebrews 13:8) Hallelujah! Victory in Him!
Verse 27.
“Depart from evil...do good...dwell forevermore. Every
Christian today should know, by the inner leading of God the Spirit, and by the
daily exhortation from God’s Word – our commitment must be a continual
departing from all evil; a continual seeking to do good. To be ‘Christian’ is to try hard to be like
Christ. Christ is Holy. Therefore, you and I must seek to be as Holy
as He – yet knowing in our hearts that we can never attain to His Holiness, His
purity; His righteousness; or His perfect conduct. When we sincerely TRY to be like Christ – in
word, in thought, and in deed – the Lord God looks upon us as having achieved
what no fallen human can ever achieve of ourselves: the righteousness of Christ
Jesus Himself. Wow! What grace!
Verse 28. “For
the Lord loveth (loves and continues to love forever) judgement, and forsaketh
(never forsakes!) His saints; they are preserved forever.” The
Lord God must keep His own Sovereign Word, and in His Word He has promised us:
“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee...”
(Hebrews 13:5)
Verse 28.
“...But the seed (posterity) of the wicked (reprobate, rejected of God)
shall be cut off. This too is an Eternal declaration: “And the
Devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where
the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for
ever and ever.” (Revelation 20:10)
Psalm 37 is filled full with what we call ‘Good
Comfort In Bad Times’. As we travel the
road of this transient life, we are constantly harassed by enemies – Spiritual
and temporal – yet we are never left comfortless, the Lord is always at hand to
speak His Eternal truths to our inner beings and pour in His oil of Divine
comfort and healing.
Verse 29. “The
righteous (in Christ) shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever. In spite of how
you or I may be feeling this day – worn out, depressed in spirit, oppressed by
our constant foes – take heart, beloved in Christ, God has spoken and we
believe! We have the victory over all
negative things, the Victory of Christ Himself. Hallelujah! Glory to the Lamb Who is indeed worthy! Victory in Him!
Thought: Our
Master Comforter is merely a prayer away. Let us go unto Him.
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