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6/9 Reading Portions: Deuteronomy 13-14; Psalms 99-101; Isaiah 41; Revelation 11
Psalm 101:8
Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.
MORNING
David, as Israel’s beloved king, exalted both the LORD’s mercy and justice, and determined to sing YHVH’s praises for these blessed attributes, as well as make music about them (Psa 101:1). David was a recipient of God’s mercy, yet as the nation’s king, he knew he had a responsibility to dispense justice, to destroy all the wicked in the land and to cut off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD. In this utterance, David is a prophetic type of the Lord Jesus Christ, just as Mr. Spurgeon writes in The Treasury of David,
“When our Lord comes in judgment, this verse will be fulfilled on a large scale.”
Yet this is also a blessed truth for every child of God saved by grace through faith in Christ. To view sin kindly or approvingly is to discourage virtue in men, and worse, it blasphemes the holiness and goodness of God. We are to desire the destruction of wickedness in ourselves as individuals, and in our assembly as the collective people of God (the local church). Although this is only one of the disciplines for eternal people to undertake, it is a good and godly daily practice. Our mornings should be filled with prayer, as this was the habit of the Lord Jesus, who spent precious time alone with the heavenly Father (Mark 1:35). Our mornings should be filled with joyful thanksgiving for God’s merciful salvation (Psa 90:14). Our mornings should be filled with praise for God’s protection (Psa 59:16). As we do this, it changes us from the inside out; and moreover, we become a part of what Christ is doing through the Spirit by His everlasting gospel so that in the Spirit, you and I may be obedient to what the LORD cries to the House of David through Jeremiah:
“Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest My wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.” Jeremiah 21:12
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Lord, help me to destroy the flesh,
Its wickedness offends
Your holiness, it never rests,
Opposing godly men.