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December 15: Don't underestimate the blessing.
Psalm 109:1-21:
Do not keep silent, O God of my praise! For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. In return for my love they are my accusers, but I give myself to prayer. Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Set a wicked man over him, and let an accuser stand at his right hand. When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few, and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places. Let the creditor seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder his labor. Let there be none to extend mercy to him, nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Let them be continually before the Lord, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth; because he did not remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it enter his body like water, and like oil into his bones. Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, and for a belt with which he girds himself continually. Let this be the Lord’s reward to my accusers, and to those who speak evil against my person. But You, O God the Lord, deal with me for Your name’s sake; because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
This psalm is a desperate cry when betrayal comes to the life of the one who does good. Moreover, the psalmist confessed that his disappointment lies in the fact that he has given love and affection and yet they paid him with evil when he gave good. Don't forget to read the entire chapter.
This psalm of David is important because it is a prophetic psalm about the Messiah. Centuries later this psalm was fulfilled in the life of Jesus, when He was betrayed by one of His closest followers, one of the 12 disciples who were with Jesus most of the time. They lived together, ate, prayed, rested and walked in the same places where Jesus was continually ministering. They traveled together in boats and walked from village to village, city to city, and for about 3 years they saw the hand of God working mightily.
When you imagine the privilege that the 12 disciples had to have lived all this with Jesus, any of us would have liked to have had that opportunity that they had.
However, one of them handed Him over to the false leaders who were seeking the death of Jesus. Judas Iscariot (not Judas Thaddaeus) was the one who handed Him with a kiss, after having received some pieces of silver in exchange for Him. All this happened so that the Scriptures would be fulfilled that Jesus would be sold for a few pieces of silver and would be betrayed.
Of all the disciples, it was Judas who opened his heart to Satan and fell into the temptation to sell his great privilege of invaluable position as a disciple of Jesus for a few coins of material value. He preferred temporary pleasure for the eternal. By falling into evil, he despised the blessing!
After Jesus died and resurrected, His disciples gathered according to the Lord's promise that they would stay in Jerusalem and wait for the filling of the Holy Spirit. In that place, Peter gets up and recites the verse from this psalm where it says: “another takes his office”. At that time...
