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Posted by Psalms on Friday, 12 February 2016
Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
123:4. Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease. Knowing no troubles of their own, the easy ones grow cruel and deride the people of the Lord. Having the godly already in secret contempt, they show it by openly scorning them. Those who do this are not the poor, the humble, the troubled, but those who have a merry life of it, and are self-content. They are easy in heart through a deadened conscience. They are easy as to any anxiety to improve, for their conceit of themselves is boundless. Such people take things easily, and therefore they scorn the holy carefulness of those who watch the hand of the Lord. Place someone perfectly at ease and he derides the godly, and becomes himself proud in heart and conduct.
And with the contempt of the proud. The proud think so much of themselves that they must think all the less of those who are better than themselves. Pride is both contemptible and contemptuous. The contempt of the great ones of the earth is especially acrid. Great hearts have been broken, and brave spirits have been withered beneath the accursed power of falsehood and the horrible blight of contempt. Our divine Lord was despised and rejected of men, yet he ceased not from his perfect service till he was exalted to dwell in the heavens. Let us bear our share of this evil which still rages, and let us firmly believe that the contempt of the ungodly will turn to our honor in the world to come: even now it serves as a certificate that we are not of this world.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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