Psalm 13:3
3 Consider [nabat] and hear [`anah] me, O LORD [Yahovah] my
God: ['elohiym] lighten ['owr] mine eyes, [`ayin] lest I
sleep [yashen] the sleep of death; [maveth] KJV-Interlinear
3
Consider and answer me, O Lord, my God; Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the
sleep of death, NASB
The writer pleads with
God to not look away, but to provide enlightenment so that the darkness that we
associate with death, will not overtake his life.
Consider and hear, is the
plea. The individual from the last verse
has been taking counsel in his own soul, from a position of his own wisdom.
Wisdom of this world is
deficient with regard to reality, and tends to segregate ones self from reality
and the proper orientation to life.
When you look to life,
without doctrine, then you will miss out on nearly all of that which is
necessary to live a proper life.
To enlighten ones eyes,
means to provide truth, knowledge, understanding, such that the individual can
see clearly and then understand exactly what is happening in his life and in
the world around him.
Without truth, there is
only delusion, the delusion of lies. And lies are exactly like living in total
darkness.
And that is what is meant
by sleeping the sleep of death. But note
that only the eyes are doing the sleeping, not the entire body. Thus when you lack truth in your soul, then
you are no better off than a dead thing.
If you have ever seen a
dead thing, then you know that it does not think, does not move, does not do
anything. Its eyes are ineffective,
seeing nothing, it hears nothing, it knows nothing, it does nothing. It is in a sphere of darkness and has no
access to life.
And that is exactly what
you have when you pursue life without doctrine.
And not knowing it, but you are going nowhere, fast, and getting
nowhere, never. And you don’t even know it.
If you have been
following along in the 2 Timothy study, then you know that doctrine is the
ticket and source of life. It is the
light with which you can see life. It is
the means with which you can discern between the lies of the world and the
truth of reality. It is the enlightenment that only God provides, through
doctrine, which is the written scripture, which is your only means of understanding
and wisdom, such that you do not lose your life and your destiny.
Ignore your daily Bible
study, and you throw away your life. That
leaves you only the nothingness of darkness, which is really nothing at all.
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