Today, I am reading and commenting on  Psalms 68-71.

The psalmist begins the first of today’s psalms by asking God to arise and scatter His enemies.  If God does so the psalmist tells us that the righteous will be glad and will rejoice.  That reads as if the righteous will only rejoice after they see God scatter His enemies, but I believe that the psalmist is calling on the righteous to rejoice because they know that God will scatter His enemies.  Let us proclaim the power of God, even while it appears that His enemies are thriving, because God will give strength to his people to do His will.

Elsewhere we are told that if we faithfully follow God, many will hate us without reason and become our enemies for no cause other than our desire to do God’s will.  I will follow the psalmist’s example and pray to God that He keep me from doing anything which might cause those who seek Him, who put their hope in Him, to be disgraced because of me.  I pray that He will keep me from doing anything of which I should be ashamed.  May He rescue me from the mire which will inevitably rise around me and help me to always have hope because I rely on Him.  With God’s help I will praise Him as long as I live and call on everyone to do likewise.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.