Saturday, February 20, 2016

Psalm 39:11


Copyright  2016 J. Neely
Psalm 39:11

11 When thou with rebukes [towkechah] dost correct [yacar] man ['iysh] for iniquity [`avon], thou makest his beauty [chamad] to consume away [macah] like a moth [`ash]: surely every man ['adam] is vanity [hebel]. Selah [celah].   KJV-Interlinear

11 When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah ESV

Nothing shows the existence of a person as being nothing, like the discipline of God as it reveals, that nothingness.

Throughout our life, we adopt beliefs, we collect possessions, we develop attitudes, and all of them are for not.

When a moth gains access to beautiful clothing, it destroys that material slowly and quietly. A moth cares nothing for the beauty of the clothing, and has no concern for its value.

When confronted with genuine truth, which only comes from God, then everything that we hold near and dear, is revealed as having no value at all.

And until or unless, we are faced with Gods discipline, then we ourselves don’t see the worthlessness of our attitudes, of our non-truth beliefs, of the things that we possess, and even the way we perceive ourselves within the environment of society and this world.

Man is flesh and blood, man has phenomenal limitations. And yet in our arrogance we are blind and see nothing, until we are faced with the harsh realities of Gods reproof, of Gods correction, of God’s punishment.

Were it not for the corrections that God places before us, we would never see, nor even accept, the false that lies within us.

Just as a simple moth can make the most valuable and beautiful piece of material, useless, so too Gods correction can reveal the worthlessness and the futility of any and all things within this world.





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