Psalm 31:1.
Good
morning, reverent and reasoning Christian!
Before you and I obey the Lord’s invitation to ’Come let us reason together…’,
we always ensure that we come before the Lord God Almighty’s throne of grace in
an attitude of humble reverence and awe.
Fools, who seek to come into God’s Presence in any other superficial
attitude, are dicing with disaster indeed, for our Lord God is a consuming fire
of absolute Holiness and absolute wrath against all sin. ’Lord God, we revere Thy Holy Presence, and
humbly seek audience to Thy gracious Throne, in and through Christ Jesus, Thy
dear Son, and His full Atonement Sacrifice alone. Amen.’
“And
when I saw Him (the risen and glorified Christ Jesus), I fell down at His feet
as dead. And He laid His right hand upon
me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last; I am He that liveth,
and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and I have the keys
of Hell and of death.” (Revelation
1:17-18)
This
is the Lord God Whom we, as Spiritually regenerated souls, seek to worship and
praise. This is the Lord God, Almighty in all
His three Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - Whom we revere, in Whose Presence we prostrate ourselves in
worship and adoration; for there is no other Creator Lord God than Him. Hallelujah!
Glory to His Name! Bless the
Lord, oh my soul!
“Thine,
O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and
the majesty: for all that is in the Heaven and in the earth is Thine; Thine is
the Kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as Head above all. Both riches and honour come of Thee, and Thou
reignest over all; and in Thine hand is power and might; and in Thine hand it
is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore (a conclusion), our God, we
thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious Name.”
(1 Chronicles 29:11-13)
This,
therefore, is the Lord God in Whom the Psalmist puts his trust; and it is this
same Lord God, Omnipotent in all His Persons and power, Whom you and I as
Christian believers should place our full hope and trust. There is no other Lord God. Amen.
Verse 1. “In Thee, O Lord, do I
put my trust. Is it not truly amazing to know that the Lord God in
Whom we place our trust, is that same one and only Lord God Who has given us
His gift of faith to use that we might be enabled to put our full trust in
Him? Wow! What a truly gracious Lord God we are
permitted to love and serve!
“For
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift
of God; not of works, lest any man/woman should boast. For we are His workmanship, created
(Spiritually reborn) in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them.”
(Ephesians 2:8-10)
This
is clearly a Lord God in Whom we can place all our Eternal trust. Praise God.
Verse 1. “…Let me never be
ashamed. How can the Lord permit the man to be ultimately put
to shame who depends alone upon Him?
This would not be dealing like a God of truth and grace. It would bring dishonour upon God Himself if
faith were not in the end rewarded. It
will be an ill day indeed for religion when trust in God brings no consolation
and no assistance.” (C.H. Spurgeon,
Treasury of David, page 148)
“Some
have thought that the occasion in his troubled life which led to this Psalm was
the treachery of the men of Keilah, and we have felt much inclined to this
conjecture; but after reflection in seems to us that its very mournful tone and
its allusions to his iniquity demand a later date, and it may be more
satisfactory to illustrate it by the period when Absolom had rebelled and his
courtiers were fled from him, while lying lips spread a thousand malicious
rumours against him.” (Treasury of
David, page 148)
Verse 1. “…Deliver me in Thy
righteousness. The Christian doctrine of Imputation - whereupon true
regenerated confession of Christ Jesus as ones Saviour, Redeemer, and Lord, the
full righteousness of Christ Himself is imputed (put to the account of) to the
born again believer - teaches us the power of our Holy Lord God towards totally
depraved and sinful man. We are
Eternally ‘delivered’ from all sin; Eternally delivered from all our
iniquities; totally saved and secured for Heaven, by the spotless righteousness
of Christ Jesus put to our personal account by God’s grace. Thus, the Psalmist cries out this truth to
all who would maliciously slander him because of his own personal sin, faults
and failings. (See Psalm 32: the
doctrine of Imputation on our website by using the ‘Search’ facility.)
Thought: Imputation: Looked at in the simplest of terms, the doctrine of
imputation is like the bankrupt person (the sinner) going to a bank manager
desiring to make a withdrawal to start a new business. The bank manager
immediately refuses to receive him/her because the person has no resources at
all in the bank. However, a millionaire
(Christ Jesus) then escorts the bankrupt person to the bank, speaks to the bank
manager and instructs him to put all His millions at the bankrupt person’s
disposal. The bank manager immediately welcomes the otherwise bankrupt person
into his office with open arms. All the millionaire’s resources had been put to
the bankrupt person’s account. That is what Christ Jesus has done for us, ‘His
people’.
"...And
thou shall call His Name Jesus; for He shall save HIS PEOPLE from their
sins." (Matthew 1:21) Hallelujah! What a Saviour! We affirm our full trust in Him.
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