Psalm 101 reads as follows from the New King James version of the Bible:
1 I will sing of mercy and justice;
To You, O LORD, I will sing praises.
2 I will behave wisely in a perfect way.
Oh, when will You come to me?
I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
3 I will set nothing wicked before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not cling to me.
4 A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will not know wickedness.
5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor,
Him I will destroy;
The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart,
Him I will not endure.
6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land,
That they may dwell with me;
He who walks in a perfect way,
He shall serve me.
7 He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.
8 Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
That I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.
The setting of this psalm could be anywhere and anytime.
The perspective of this psalm is from David’s point of view as king and as guarding his own relationship with the Lord.
David is also acting as guardian of his household symbolically as ” the household of faith”.
There were a lot of evil elements and evil intentions out there that may tend to circle in and try to impose upon those that are in the inner circle in this case of in inner circle of David’s kingdom highlighted by his own deep and abiding relationship with the Lord as his anointed.
These evil ways opposed the virtues mentioned in the first verse of this psalm which are the virtues of justice and mercy.
David was on watch for the intrusion of anyone and anything that would compromise justice and mercy and he is saying in this psalm he would hold them at bay. They would not be permitted in his inner circle.
The last verse in this psalm could be related to the final two chapters of the Bible in the book of Revelation where there will be those kept outside the great city of the Lord.
David actions as the guardian and keeper of the faith involved a level of discernment that involved a trained eye to decipher the good and weed away the evil.
This internal compass, externalized with the eye of discernment, was of vital necessity for all possible endeavors as the keenness of sight emanated from the source of inner wisdom on David’s part.
There were workers of deceit as mentioned in 5, those who worked for and practiced deceit. They would be escorted away from the King’s court.
Verse 3 says, “3 I will set nothing wicked before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not cling to me.
This verse for the reader of this psalm might often involve a point of conviction. What you allow yourself to view, can itself be wrong and potentially involve the beginnings of a downfall into the wickedness in that you are letting yourself observe what sometimes can cling to you. What you are viewing can be a matter of playing with fire.
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Psalm 119 verse 7 says, ” turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.”
David says in verse 3 it will not cling to him, but he also says he will set nothing wicked before his eyes.
There is the possibility that even for David, setting the wickedness before his eyes could have the result of causing this wickedness to cling to him.
The wisdom involved is to cast it from your presence at the outset as wickedness can have a clinging nature.
Even say a job that involves maybe fraud all around, can have an effect of seeping in and the thing to do is maybe walk away or at least be able to discern this and make a decision with open eyes towards not only real truths but real evils.
The discerning eye is needed. In verse 2 it says, “
2 I will behave wisely in a perfect way.
Oh, when will You come to me?
I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
David is saying there is a wise way to behave, and there is a perfect way relating to this wisdom. In other words a wise way will be available as from the Lord and he will give a way through that is of wisdom and the virtues of justice and mercy.
If someone realistically is lacking or beginning to lack from this interior sight of wisdom, trouble may be ahead for this. This internal compass is something we rely on individually to keep us going in the ability to wisely discern what is going on and that is a first priority to look into in the priority of lacks. In the verse Chapter of James it says the Lord will give wisdom liberally and without begrudging the gift and the only requirement is to ask so if there are points of lacking wisdom in a specific instance or area the thing to do is ask for it.
Even at the national level, you can see how people en mass have lost there internal compass and let themselves in on a herd mentality that involved injustices and a lack of mercy towards many others and even themselves.
Things that might lead to that should be deflected at the outset and whatever is of the nature of evil should be brought to the exit door.
Verse 6 says,
6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land,
That they may dwell with me;
He who walks in a perfect way,
He shall serve me.
While there is the discernment process towards the nay, there is also a discernment process to the yes.
There is a process of exclusion in this psalm but there is also a process of inclusion as well.
The people of God, whoever they might be, should be seen as potentially inclusive to your individual walk with the Lord. With the help of the Lord and wisdom from the Lord you can begin to identify who might be of the Kingdom.
Just because you might need to isolate away from others who are involved with and indeed are proponents of whatever brand of evil they are championing, that doesn’t mean this exclusionary status applies across the board to every one else. And this is part of the discerning eye of wisdom as well in being able to sift through who is who rather than go with an across the board view that might erroneously exclude just about everybody.
Other say godly people are not out of bounds and your eyes can be upon them meaning you can have dealings with them and these dealings can be of benefit to all concerned..
So the discerning eye isn’t all about exclusion but it also entails what can be included.
Verse 2 says, ” when will you come to me,” or ” when will you meet me,” in other translations.
We could conduct imaginary scenarios around this idea of meeting the Lord in possibly trying circumstances where evil is keenly observed right in the midst of the bustle of the crowd.
Suppose David was transported through time and was a key member of the early Christian church, and he was fellowshipping with the believers in the evenings.
He gets a ticket to see the latest round of gladiatorial contests in the Coliseum for this day.
It is a beautiful late morning sun, there is prosperity in the air and people are happy and gathering in droves on their way in to see the fights.
David gets in there and sees people being entertained and then enthralled by seeing and watching other people fighting each other to the death or strong animals like lions to the death.
He looks around in the stadium at the men and women cheering the events that lend into savagery.
They are feasting their eyes on the so called entertainment, David and maybe the other early Christian sincere believer with him begins to wisely discern that just about everybody around him, is of another elk and is from the evil camp because, they are roundly approving what is going on and then the wise thought arises, where I am that I am with such people?
As David quickly exits the stadium, his internal compass is wisely telling him all is wrong and all these people who were on the surface looking and sounding okay aren’t okay and the thought goes to the Lord and where is he?
As his eyes roll through the streets of Rome as he parades away from the carnage of evil delights and he sees so many more people coming to revel in the carnage, he raises his eyes to the still inviting sky and says to the Lord, “when will I meet you?
When will I be away from those who brazenly conspire at first secretly and openly against justice and mercy?
In this imagined scene, the call is to the Lord and when will I meet you instead of this. And there are so many other possible scenes, real or imaged when the call will be to the Lord and meeting him.
If there is one verse you can go to of all the verses in the psalms as trouble surrounds, it is verse 2 from psalm 101.
When will I meet you?
These words reveal a stark confrontation with circumstances where it is only the Lord that you must meet, otherwise all is lost.
There comes a point where is seems everything is the immediate location seems in chaos, out of control and with only bad intentions coming from just about everybody, and it is time to look away and look to the Lord and say,” when will this pass and when will I meet you?
If there is one verse from the psalm to hold on to for dear life, this is it.
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