Psalm 26:3
3 For thy lovingkindness [checed] is before mine eyes [`ayin]:
and I have walked [halak] in thy truth ['emeth]. KJV-Interlinear
3 For
Thy lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Thy truth. NASB
Everyone would love to
have a friend in high places. The reason for that is there a lot of advantages
when you have friends in high places.
In some cases people
would try to take advantage of such a friendship, becoming a leech, and just
keeping their friendship because of self-serving purposes.
But there is a legitimate
relationship through friendship where the individual is honest and responsible
in their life, but there are times when you simply need the help of somebody
who is in a position to help.
God, of course, is in the
highest possible position that anyone can be in, and God has unlimited power,
unlimited ability, and unlimited resources. So if you were to have a friend in high
places, then God would be the best possible friend that anyone could have.
The word lovingkindness,
indicates a devotion of care and favor with which God looks upon and applies
to, the individual who is seeking his favor.
In the previous verse God
is asked to examine the soul and emotions, and the genuineness of the Christian
or believers attitude and preparation within his life in accordance with God’s
word.
The purpose of the
examination is to determine and define and discover the dimension of God’s
favor towards individual.
The believer who has a
genuine desire to be as good as he can be within his own spiritual life, sooner
or later wants to know where he sits in his relationship with God.
Is God my friend? Do I
have God’s favor? Am I where I should be in order to have those privileges? How
do I know?
And without some sort of
measure, without some sort of standard, the individual simply can’t know where
he stands in the eyes of God.
And so there is only one
way to know, and that way is by means of knowledge Bible doctrine.
The person who pretends
to be godly or spiritual, but never really pursues a course of action to
accomplish that status, is phony to say the least, and will never have the
degree of God’s favor that he presumes that he has.
It is better to know for
certain, because it is very easy to deceive oneself into thinking you are where
you need to be, when you really aren’t.
And so the previous
verse, examine me, is directed toward God, because God is the only objective
examiner. None of us have the perfect objectivity for the evaluation of
ourselves.
And thus, the final
phrase of this verse, I have walked in your truth, which identifies the entire
spiritual growth process by which the believer with a genuine and legitimate
desire, to advance to and attain a genuine and legitimate spiritual status that
will pass inspection, that will pass evaluation, and achieve the desired goal,
which is God’s friendship, and thus God’s favor.
To walk, is to study and
to learn and to use what you learn and most important, to comply with Gods
spiritual process, not yours, in that effort.
