Psalm 35:23
23 Stir up [`uwr] thyself, and awake [quwts] to my judgment [mishpat],
even unto my cause [riyb], my God ['elohiym] and my Lord ['Adonay]. KJV-Interlinear
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Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord! ESV
Formerly, God has been
asked to be not silent, but to come to the aid of the one asking.
And now the appeal is to
more than that, it is asking God to actually take action, to do something. But this is not in the sense of asking God to
do this or that, and then expecting Him to do this or that. This is a request for vindication, or to
stand in judgment against all that oppose truth.
As believers, we are
identified with truth. Apart from our
faith in Christ, we are identified with evil or all that is lost.
But in this world, we
have nothing to prove our faith, no certificate, no document, nothing with
which we can present to anyone, to prove our salvation.
And thus we in faith are
reliant on faith. And that means that
our backing, is God Himself, or no one.
For only God can validate our faith, and only God can confirm our faith,
and only God can differentiate between faith and non-faith.
No one else can look into
the soul and see faith, or see the human spirit that was created at the moment
of belief, or see the eternal life that was imputed into the human spirit. The soul and the spirit are different vessels
but they are united as one.
Just as the human body
and the human soul are different vessels but united as one, however, no one can
examine the body and soul and see each part, or even separate one for the
other. That is beyond any science that
exists or will ever exist.
The human body is part of
the physical world, and the human soul is part of the spiritual world, and
faith is the only mechanism for crossing over between the two worlds. And while the soul has probably unlimited
abilities, its capabilities are severely limited when filtered down through the
physical attributes of the human brain and body.
And as goes our
limitations, so goes our proofs of eternal life.
Only God can validate and
only God can vindicate, but He does it from the position of faith, never from
anything that we can or could do, or never from works, as it were.
