Psalm 21:7
7 For the king [melek] trusteth [batach] in the LORD, [Yahovah] and
through the mercy [checed] of the most High ['elyown] he shall not be moved. [mowt] KJV-Interlinear
7 For
the king trusts in the Lord, And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he
will not be shaken. NASB
David is the king. Most kings and leaders and high ranking
officials throughout history have presumed that they are beyond the need for
God or anything else in creation. Some
even presumed themselves as a god themselves, but of course that did not work
out so well for them.
But a really smart
person, a wise person, knows the truth about life and reality, and they know
that all of life depends entirely on God for all of their and its, existence.
Without God in your life,
you would be nothing, have nothing, know nothing. But then there a lot of people that are too
stupid to figure this out. After all, having
been alive in this world for the impressive number of years of perhaps ten, or
twenty, or forty, or even eighty years, then you can well imagine that you more
than qualify for wisdom over all of human history of well into the many
thousands of years, and of the planet and of creation, which is many more times
that number.
But David did not presume
such wisdom.
It is due to Gods favor,
or as we often times call it, grace, that we are even here at all.
And mercy, ‘checed,’
means grace or favor, but it is the application of grace, or grace in action,
the activity of Gods work in our behalf in the present.
God gives us favor, due
to our compliance with His truth, which is the content of the scriptures, and
the mandates and procedures that He has defined and designed for our spiritual
life, and then he applies His favor, or blessings to our life throughout the
course of our life.
And not be moved, simply
means to be established.
Being established means
to be set on solid ground, on a solid foundation, that is immovable and
permanent.
And that foundation is
doctrine.
Established means to be
complete, and that is exactly what doctrine does for you.
You were born into this
world an incomplete person. Your physical
life demonstrates the completion process wherein you grow up physically, learn
information and develop mentally, and grow up to some semblance of maturity.
And so it is with the
spiritual life, only the spiritual aspects of your life will be with you
forever, and they are the foundation and form, or your real completion and
destiny with God forever.
