Don’t you love it when, after years of reading the “Old Book” passages become alive, reinforcing old teachings or simply warming your heart.

This is the book of Psalms, and it is rich.

I pray I can communicate a portion of the blessing we receive from this wonderful book.

Psalm 62:3 How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
Psalm 62:4 They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah

In our previous post, I sought to explain my understanding of this psalm, and that David was silent before God, that he was not making any petitions or requests before God in the psalm. He was silent before God.

Not so much in relation to those who had attacked him. Remember – the attacker is his son, who also had enlisted David’s trusted counselor Ahithophel, one who David considered a friend.

In his silence before God, he questions his attackers.

How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

As attackers, they naturally sought to find victory when their enemy was weak, like a leaning wall or a tottering fence. David was on the run, with his forces decimated, and unsure who was loyal to him. Who could be trusted, when his very friend Ahithophel had rebelled?

This attack had the smell of death, not only in its eventual outcome, which David could not admit to, but also in the intent of his enemies. Their attack had all the hallmarks of the evil one, saying one thing and doing the other. Hypocrites!

Verse 4 speaks of taking pleasure in falsehood. How foolish and short sighted. Do they not understand the fountain of all truth is the Lord, and that this treachery cannot succeed.

Remember David’s attitude when he was on the run? The rogue king Saul chased him and on multiple occasions, David had opportunity to strike him down, and yet he would not. He would not touch the Lord’s anointed. No success would come of it, and it would frustrate the will of God.

How could David reconcile that his son and friend were doing that which was abhorrent to him.

David could have justified an attack on Saul, since he had been anointed the king of Israel, yet he waited on the Lord. Absalom had no anointing, nor call of God on his life. He was simply a headstrong, deceitful, self willed, spoiled young man.

This rebellion was, from David’s standpoint, utterly spawned in falsehood. Absalom and Ahithophel surely had heard of the previous exploits of David in his ascension to the throne, yet they decided to pursue a completely different method of attaining power. Through falsehood. Through lies to the people of Israel and by deception to the king.

How utterly shortsighted.

And yet, if we consider our own lives, how often do we seek to short circuit God’s will with the same motivation, the same “pleasure in falsehood”, looking to find advantage through another’s weakness and by deception taking advantage of a weakness.

Ephesians 4:20, 25

But that is not the way you learned Christ!–
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

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