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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Psalms 35:17-28
Although we may not have to contend with man’s wickedness, as do the faithful in this psalm, let us not forget that persecution has been and still is the lot of many Christians. How grateful we should be that in our country we continue to enjoy freedom of conscience and of worship! To praise the Lord in the midst of His redeemed people is the believer’s proper desire (v. 18). Do we who still possess this privilege value it rightly?
In John 15:25, the Lord Jesus refers to this hatred without a cause of which He was the object (v. 19). Surely without a cause! . . . and yet the world’s hatred of Christ and of His own ought not to surprise us (1 John 3:13). Satan puts into men’s minds this hatred against the One who has defeated him. Can we imagine more awful sentiments than those expressed in vv. 21, 25, 26? Few expressions are so strong to lay bare in all their horror the depths of the wickedness of the human heart – evil joy to see the sufferings of an innocent man . . . and He the Son of God come to save men. "Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it", cry the mockers (v. 21). "Every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him", declares Revelation 1:7 . . . no longer on the cross, but in all His judicial glory.
