Psalm
119:75-76
(75) I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right,
and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Similar
to verse 71 ("It is good for me that
I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes."), how do we
view affliction? Do we truly believe
that God afflicts us in His faithfulness (literally firmness; figuratively
security; morally fidelity:)? Because God's judgments are right, and because we
are His children, like the best of fathers, He must afflict us to bring us back
to His commandments. "For whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye
endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom
the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers,
then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our
flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather
be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a
few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we
might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth
to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable
fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."
(Hebrews 12:6-11)
(76) Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be
for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
Merciful
kindness - OT:2617 checed (kheh'-sed); from OT:2616; kindness; by implication
(towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty:
Comfort
- OT:5162 nacham (naw-kham'); a primitive root; properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe
strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity,
console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself):
According
to thy word - OT:565 'imrah (im-raw'); or 'emrah (em-raw'); feminine of OT:561,
and meaning the same:
Thy
servant - OT:5650 `ebed (eh'-bed); from OT:5647; a servant:
Are
we deserving of God's merciful kindness? But yet, hasn't He promised it?
"Yet the Lord will
command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be
with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life." (Psalm 42:8)
"He shall send from
heaven, and save from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God
shall send forth his mercy and his truth." (Psalm 57:3)
"For thy mercy is great
unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds." (Psalm 57:10)
Do
we trust in these promises? Do we remind God of these promises? (and thus
remind us of the truth of these promises) Do we take comfort in these promises?
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