April 19, 2022

Passage Read: Psalm 140-143
Meditation Verses: 141:4-5

Thought

David recognizes how easy it is, how tempting to fall in with the wicked. The wicked have nice things, and those things are not wrong in themselves, but by sharing them, his desire for them increases, and he is tempted to join in the activities the wicked use to gain those delicacies or use to afford them. So he pleads with the Lord to keep him from joining in with the wicked, to be drawn in with them. Instead, he pledges to keep a heart tender towards the rebuke of a righteous man, a humble heart that is willing to hear rebuke and correction, that recognizes how good it is for him to hear even stinging words from a righteous man.

Application

I am just as tempted by the delicacies that the wicked enjoy, and I need to be on guard against my heart being drawn after their ways out of a longing for the things they enjoy. I too need to have a heart that recognizes the righteous man, that certainly recognizes that all God says is righteous, and that is willing to hear it and quick to respond to it in humility and obedience. The only protection against going astray is being willing to be corrected, to welcome correction and to submit to it when it comes.