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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Psalms 109:1-20
This terrible psalm begins by calling upon the "God of my praise" (v. 1). No threat, no reason for discouragement prevented the Lord Jesus from looking up to His Father and praising Him. On the contrary, they provided all the more reason for doing so. How did He defend Himself when "compassed about with words of hatred" (v. 3)? He said, "But I give myself unto prayer" (v. 4). Dear Christian friends, that should be our only reply when we come up against any unjust hostility. If we keep quiet – or rather if we speak only to God – He will not keep quiet and will undertake to reply in our stead (v. 1; Romans 12:9). Nevertheless, Christ was the only one to endure "such contradiction . . ." (Hebrews 12:3). His adversaries (who in the original Hebrew bear the same name as their master Satan), not only fought against Him without a cause but, cries the Lord Jesus. "they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love" (v. 5). Judas can be classed as one of them, being guilty of an even greater act of ingratitude, having been at one time the object of very close affection. Acts 1:20 applies v. 8 to him (and, as to the future, this passage refers to the Antichrist). There was indeed more than enough to break the heart of the Saviour (v. 16).
