Saturday, December 12, 2015

Psalm 38:14


Copyright  2015 J. Neely
Psalm 38:14

14 Thus I was as a man ['iysh] that heareth [shama`] not, and in whose mouth [peh] are no reproofs [towkechah].   KJV-Interlinear

14 I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.  ESV

The description of the lonely victim intensifies, as he has been describing his openness to Gods inspection, and yet those who are closest to him as well as his friends and companions, put him at a distance, which compounds his helplessness and loneliness, and this leaves him vulnerable to those who would seek his life, which further isolates him.

As a man who is controlled by the sin nature, and has been indifferent toward the resources of the spiritual life, he hears nothing, because he does not listen, and in his own mouth there are no reproofs, because he refuses to see his own flaws and vulnerabilities.

And such is the nature of the individual who lives out of fellowship, and perceives himself as innocent or righteous, and certainly not subject to reproof by anyone, while refusing to acknowledge the isolation, that exists in his life.

Anyone who rejects God’s plan, and God’s design, by indifference or antagonism or the presumption that it does not apply to them, or they don’t need it, or what they already know is more than sufficient, then they will fail to recognize the pit and the isolation that they placed themselves in, and the intensification is not necessarily an emotional intensification, as it is a factual intensification, removing the individual further and further from the spiritual life, because of the negative pattern of life that they have chosen for themselves.





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