Psalm 64: Protect Me From Secret Plots
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Psalm 64 is a prayer for deliverance from David’s enemies (v. 1).
It seemed even those he trusted most had turned against him.
Absalom’s rebellion had been planned in great secrecy.
His accusations had hit the mark, just as arrows fired at a target (v. 3).
But David was innocent of the things of which he was being accused (v. 4).
The perpetrators of the falsehoods did not fear God’s wrath for lying.
“They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?” (v. 5).
They imagined that God could not see what they were plotting.
“They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep” (v. 6).
The wicked spent an inordinate amount of time planning their evil deeds.
“It would be well for the righteous to be as diligent in the practice of righteousness. Too often godliness becomes an entirely passive matter. No growth in grace is discernible, no new exploits for God are planned. The words of Christ are pertinent, ‘The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light’ (Luke 16:8).” Ultimately, God will not allow evil men to triumph (Psalm 64:7). By their own words, they will stand judged and be destroyed. “So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away” (v. 8). It will come to pass that wise men eventually will come to acknowledge God’s deliverance of the righteous (v. 9). “The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory” (v. 10). “All God’s people, whether involved in the danger that is the subject of the psalm or not, will rejoice in the triumph of the psalmist.” And evil will be no more (Revelation 21:27). “Ne’er think the victory won, / Nor lay thine armor down; / Thy arduous task will not be done / Till thou obtain the crown.”
