Psalm 25:2
2 O my God, ['elohiym] I trust [batach] in thee: let me not be ashamed, [buwsh] let not mine enemies ['oyeb]
triumph [`alats] over me. KJV-Interlinear
2 O my
God, in Thee I trust, Do not let me be ashamed; Do not let my enemies exult
over me. NASB
In the first verse, we
lift up our soul by adding doctrine into it, thus advancing ourselves toward a
better understanding and orientation to God.
That leads to trust. We know God, we know His plan, we know this
world, because we have learned what it is and what it is all about, and that leads
to trust.
David does not ask for
shame to never be a part of his life, but he asks that because of his lifted
soul filled with wisdom, that means he will never be ashamed due to anything
that God does or has planned.
Enemies of God are
enemies of believers in Christ.
In this devils world,
evil rules, or tries to rule, but God ultimately controls history despite the
efforts of evil.
Triumphs of evil or those
things that evil sees as its triumphs, are not really triumphs, but merely a
training ground for believers to test their metal, so to speak.
The mature believer knows
that God controls history. The mature
believer knows that there will be bumps and problems along the way for his own
life, but no matter.
Evil will try as it may,
to destroy every person, every believer, ever Jew. First the Jews because God has made promises
specifically for Jews. Second the
believers, because God has made promises specifically for believers. And third, every human being, because Satan
knows that as long as there are people, anyone can at anytime believe in Christ
and thus be a threat to Satan’s own plan for defeating God.
It will not be until the Tribulation
and the last and final battle that Satan really makes his last ditch effort in
destroying everyone. He will fail, but
not before he has killed off over ninety-nine percent of the worlds population. A very small remnant, very small, will survive
to be rescued and delivered by Christ at the Second Advent, and enter into the
Millennium.
But we do not have to
look to those types of extreme biblical events to find hope and trust.
Most lives are lived every
day, with little or no publicity regarding each persons individual problems. We all have problems of one sort or
another. We all have worries of one sort
or another.
And, the naïve believer
is the one who lacks trust due to the lack of knowledge, which is usually due
to their disinterest in learning doctrine the correct way. Most folks simply presume that they know it
all, and of course they do not.
Anyone who does not study
daily, does not learn in an academic environment, is not taught by someone more
knowledgeable than they, does not know and cannot know enough in order to have
any level of spiritual growth, and therefore real trust.
Their trust is emotional
and lacking is stamina and longevity. When
the really big difficulties come along in life, and they will, that is when the
mature stand out and the immature crumble.
As for the enemies of God
and for the mature believer, no matter what is encountered in this world, the
mature believer has a plan specifically designed for him by God, and that plan
is eternal. The world can take
advantage, can kick you around, can insult you, can be prejudiced against you,
can hate you for any number of reasons.
But so what.
God cares and Gods plan
will reign triumphant. The world will
never win.
You will always have the
last laugh so to speak, and you will be vindicated forever, when you get to
heaven. After that nothing and no one
can do anything against you ever again. Your eternal reward will speak for
itself, while those who align with the world will have nothing by comparison.
The world will cheer for
the moment, and you as a mature believer will win forever.
But of course mature
believers do not come automatically, no one is self-taught nor self-made, they
are constructed by God, by means of Gods spiritual process which you must
follow. And you advance through this
process by means of pursuing your daily studies of Bible doctrine while under
the instruction of a legitimate instructor.
With this there is no
shame, no sorrow, no failure, despite how the world looks at you or what it
does to you.
Your soul looks to God,
to your own personal destiny.
