“WRONGFUL ENEMIES”

 

"They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty…". ~ Psalm 69:4

A 'wrongful' enemy is one who hates without cause. Sadly, there are those who, for whatever reason, are so driven by insincere motives, that all sense of reason is lost with them. As David said here, " I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none." (v. 20).

David was innocent, and so today, many are innocent of any wrong, yet suffer because of a ‘wrongful' enemy. God knows who is truthfully innocent and who is guilty. Therein lies the consolation: "Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee." (v. 19).

God tries the heart of His child, to purify, and strengthen the child’s faith. Therein is the benefit. This trial period serves not only a benefit for the one under trial, but it also ‘proves’ by exposing the love of other children. If their love is genuine, they will "weep with them that weep" (Romans 12:15). If their love is lip service they will be exposed as a 'wrongful' enemy, in their treatment of the brother under trial. Thus, there will be an exposure of the genuine from the fake.

Many times, during a trial of our faith, others, (even brethren) will look at the situation as Job's three friends did toward Job. David described it in Psalm 69:26 as follows: "For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded."

They may revel when others suffer, yet God knows, and will, in His time, recompense the wicked and reward the innocent.

Those whom the Lord chastens will find consolation in these words of David in v. 13, “O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, answer me in the truth of thy salvation." It will enable them to emerge from their trial, stronger. But for those who are wrongful enemies, the words of David in vss. 27-28 are a sobering reminder of their final end: "Add iniquity unto their iniquity; and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous."