Spurgeon Meditations

 

So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.

Psa 73 22

Remember this is the confession of the man after God's own heart; and in telling us his inner life he writes So foolishwas I, and ignorant. The word "foolish here, means morethan it signifies in ordinary language. David, in a formerverse of the Psalm, writes, I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked which shows that the follyhe intended had sin in it. He puts himself down as being thus foolish and adds a word which is to give intensity to it; so foolish was I." How foolish he could not tell. It was a sinful folly a folly which was not to be excused by frailty but to be condemned because of its perverseness and wilful ignorance for he had been envious of the present prosperity of the ungodly forgetful of the dreadful end awaiting all such. And are we better than David that we should call ourselves wise! Do we profess that we have attained perfection or to have been so chastened that the rod has taken all our wilfulness out of us? Ah this were pride indeed! If David was foolish how foolish should we be in our own esteem if we could but see ourselves! Look back believer: think of your doubting God when He has been so faithful to you--think of your foolish outcry of "Not so my Father when He crossed His hands in affliction to give you thelarger blessing; think of the many times when you have read Hisprovidences in the dark, misinterpreted His dispensations, andgroaned out, All these things are against me when they areall working together for your good! Think how often you havechosen sin because of its pleasure, when indeed, that pleasurewas a root of bitterness to you! Surely if we know our own heartwe must plead guilty to the indictment of a sinful folly; andconscious of this foolishness we must make David's consequentresolve our own-- Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel."


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