Psalms 55:19 KJV
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
My focus is on this phrase, "because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God."
Gill's commentary says, "...this is to be understood of sinners, ..... who have no changes in their hearts, nor in their lives, but continue in their natural and sinful estate, without any impression of the power and grace of God upon them. Or they have no changes in their worldly circumstances, from good to bad, ..... things go well with them, and they are not in trouble as other men; they are at ease and quiet, and are settled on their lees; ... Or they have no regard to their last change by death; and are not afraid of that, .... they put away this evil day far from them; think nothing about it, as if it would never be, and as if they had made an agreement with it that this change should never come upon them."
I think it is significant who David is referring to. He says of him,
Psalms 55:12-15 KJV
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
I think this is very likely a reference to King Saul, or to Ahithophel or even to his son, Absalom. David says that the reason they did not fear God as they ought was that they "have no changes." Life was too predictable and passive in their case. Because they did not have appropriate conflicts, they did not come to appreciate a relationship with the LORD.
We must never despise the days of difficulty but praise God for them as they draw us to Christ.
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
My focus is on this phrase, "because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God."
Gill's commentary says, "...this is to be understood of sinners, ..... who have no changes in their hearts, nor in their lives, but continue in their natural and sinful estate, without any impression of the power and grace of God upon them. Or they have no changes in their worldly circumstances, from good to bad, ..... things go well with them, and they are not in trouble as other men; they are at ease and quiet, and are settled on their lees; ... Or they have no regard to their last change by death; and are not afraid of that, .... they put away this evil day far from them; think nothing about it, as if it would never be, and as if they had made an agreement with it that this change should never come upon them."
I think it is significant who David is referring to. He says of him,
Psalms 55:12-15 KJV
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
I think this is very likely a reference to King Saul, or to Ahithophel or even to his son, Absalom. David says that the reason they did not fear God as they ought was that they "have no changes." Life was too predictable and passive in their case. Because they did not have appropriate conflicts, they did not come to appreciate a relationship with the LORD.
We must never despise the days of difficulty but praise God for them as they draw us to Christ.
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