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“I hate the double-minded, but I love your law. You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word. Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God. Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope! Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually! You spurn all who go astray from your statutes, for their cunning is in vain. All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies. My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.” Psalm 119:113-120
Where are we on such things like evil, double-mindedness, lies, deceptions…and such? Where are we, really? Do we remain silent and say to ourselves because everyone has the right to their own opinion even if it is one that leads to weakness of faith or destruction of the person or others they are around? Do we just go on with life because we have so much else to be concerned with…after all it doesn’t really affect me anyway?
Well the Psalmist makes a choice to “hate the double-minded”… the unstable in the faith. People willing to bend however the wind blows! That seems harsh until you understand that the double minded also set out to deceive others so they are not alone in their chosen confusion. Paul says in Romans 1:28-32- “They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.” So with this in mind we too are to make this commitment…and we must judge/discern the way of the LORD over the way of men who have one goal in mind… to lead us astray. Are these the kind of people you want to hang out with…or have your children be around? Is this really a time to be silent and just get along?
He makes this choice to seek the Lord so he can stand against these things that oppose the way of God. So he takes a clear stand, when others might mock, “…but I love your law. You are my hiding place and my shield…” He loves…we should love…God’s covenantal guide for living as God commands so that He is glorified. So he commits himself to love the law for he knows therein are the answers he needs that will enable him to hope again. He says plainly, “I hope in your word.” He cries out to God to “uphold me according to your promise, that I may live…Hold me up that I may be safe as I continually trust in your statues”. He takes great comfort in God’s Word that reminds him of how God works in the life of His people, “I love your testimonies.”
David rejoices over God’s presence through His Word, saying, “My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.” The word for “tremble” here speaks of the feeling we used to get as we waited with great anticipation for our date to come down the stairs, or that sense of excitement our children get waiting for a parent to come through the door. It is that overwhelming desire and anticipation of being with the one person we can’t wait to be with…a trembling all the way down to our toes. Remember that?
That is how much David loves his LORD and how much he wishes to be in His presence rather than the presence of the world but at the same time he says, “I am afraid of your judgments.” He “fears” for the life of the lost. For He knows God loves him, with an everlasting love, that causes him to tremble in anticipation of Him but at the same time, he knows, that this same God will judge the double-minded with the same passion in His wrath…so knowing the love of God as he does his heart breaks for the lost since God has confirmed their end.
Our duty, then, is before us…we are to hate the sin of double-mindedness so much that is leads us to proclaim the truth against it no matter what. And yet we must do so in love as Paul tells us. For we know the wrath that awaits them if the Spirit doesn’t overrule their sinfulness. Not only is standing against the double-minded hard today but having compassion for their soul makes it even harder…but that is the command. With these things in mind then we can say with King David, “I love your law… My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.” (And you were wondering what you were called to do today!) Praise the Lord!
God Bless y’all today.
In His Grip,
Pastor Mike
