Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Wednesday July 28, 2021 |
Morning Time: 6:13 AM PST
"So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee." --Psalm 73:22
Remember this is the confession of the man after God's own heart; and in
telling us his inner life, he writes, "So foolish was I, and ignorant." The word
"foolish," here, means more than it signifies in ordinary language.
David, in a former verse of the Psalm, writes, "I was envious at the
foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked," which shows that the folly
he intended had sin in it. He puts himself down as being thus "foolish," and
adds a word which is to give intensity to it; "so foolish was I." How
foolish he could not tell. It was a sinful folly, a folly which was not to
be excused by frailty, but to be condemned because of its perverseness and
wilful ignorance, for he had been envious of the present prosperity of the
ungodly, forgetful of the dreadful end awaiting all such. And are we better than
David that we should call ourselves wise! Do we profess that we have attained
perfection, or to have been so chastened that the rod has taken all our
wilfulness out of us? Ah, this were pride indeed! If David was foolish,
how foolish should we be in our own esteem if we could but see ourselves!
Look back, believer: think of your doubting God when He has been so faithful to
you--think of your foolish outcry of "Not so, my Father," when He crossed His
hands in affliction to give you the larger blessing; think of the many times
when you have read His providences in the dark, misinterpreted His
dispensations, and groaned out, "All these things are against me," when they are
all working together for your good! Think how often you have chosen sin because
of its pleasure, when indeed, that pleasure was a root of bitterness to you!
Surely if we know our own heart we must plead guilty to the indictment of a
sinful folly; and conscious of this "foolishness," we must make David's
consequent resolve our own--"Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel."
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