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NO EVIL-SPEAKING IN DAVID’S PALACE
FRIDAY, APRIL 19
Psalm 101:1-8
Exodus 20:16
“… a flattering mouth worketh ruin.”
NO EVIL-SPEAKING IN DAVID’S PALACE
Like St. Augustine’s Table Talk to his students not to speak bad of anyone in his monastery, this Psalm of David warns those who serve in his palace against any kind of backbiting. Those who are faithful and loyal to him, He will bless. A great king like him has many followers, the good and the bad. So are followers of Jesus Christ. Among His twelve disciples there hid one Judas until he was exposed after the feeding of the five thousand (John 6:70).
David himself has suffered the effects of the slandering tongues of his enemies. Therefore, as king, he wants to deal severely with these snakes so that others may be spared.
“To give one’s neighbour a stab in the dark is one of the most atrocious of crimes, and cannot be too heartily reprobated, yet such as are guilty of it often find patronage in high places …. Proud men are generally hard, and therefore very unfit for office; persons of high looks provoke enmity and discontent, and the fewer of such people about a court the better for the stability of a throne.”
(Spurgeon)
THOUGHT: Joab and Ahithophel were traitors to David as Judas Iscariot was to the Lord Jesus.
PRAYER: Lord, help me to be a Peter, faithful to Thee to the very end.