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Posted on: 30th Apr 2015
Psalm 40:8-10 (KJV)
8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. 9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. 10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
Reflections:
What great things to be able to say! David the Psalmist's relationship with God was so fulfilling that the profuseness of it spilled out from his lips and into action. For the most part David actually did those things he was supposed to do according to God�s holy Law. David wrote, �Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee (Ps 119:11).
Isn�t it interesting that David said, �thy law is within my heart.� Note that David didn�t say that God�s law was written �on� his heart (2 Cor 3:3), but rather that it was �within� his heart. David did it the hard way! By sheer passion David became an acceptable man of God, and when David did it right God blessed him for it. He didn�t have a New Covenant mediator, as we now have in the Christ, who would do it freely for him.
David did believe in the coming Messiah as in evident in Isaiah 53. When David died he was carried to a place called Paradise to await Messiah�s coming. He would wait approximately 1000 years in this Paradise for Jesus Christ, the Messiah, to conquer sin and death. Then he, and all the other saints of the Old Covenant (including the thief on the cross[Lk 23:39-43] ) ascended gloriously into heaven.
The question for today is, how many of us (who have received all that God has freely given by grace) can say what David says in our verse today? Hopefully each and every one of us can. If not, why not choose to give the Holy Spirit permission to freely do in us what David did the hard way? After all, isn�t this our reasonable service to one who has done so much for us (Rom 12:1) � ?
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