Psalm 12 is all about words! Some good and some not so good! I found this in The Bible Exposition Commentary:
On some university campuses, what once was called "Home Economics" is now "The College of Applied Life Studies." In Tucson, Arizona, potholes are no more, because they're now known as "pavement deficiencies." In politics, new taxes are "revenue enhancements," and in military jargon, "retreat" is "backloading of augmentation personnel." If, while you're backloading, you get shot, the bullet hole is "a ballistically induced aperture in the subcutaneous environment." This kind of artificial evasive language is known as "double-speak" and its popularity in almost every area of human life is evidence that language and communication are in serious trouble. Our ability to speak and write words is a precious gift of God, and this psalm deals with the right and wrong use of that gift.
Verse 6 speaks about God's Word:
6The words and promises of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.
John 17:17 says that God's Word IS Truth! Now THOSE are the Words I want to hear and know! AMEN!
In Matthew we find Jesus doing what Jesus did! He went about teaching, preaching and healing! And, as usual, the Pharisees were right there to try and trip Him up! It is still amazing to me that Jesus did, in their midst and right before their eyes, things that they had never seen before! Signs, wonders, miracles, healings and deliverances were happening all around them and they were concerned with what day of the week it was! One key is what Jesus said to them in verses 11-12:
11But He said to them, What man is there among you, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a pit or ditch on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? 12How much better and of more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful and allowable to do good on the Sabbath days.
They didn't really value the lives of the people! They didn't think that people WERE more valuable than sheep! If they did, then they would have been joyful over the people being set free! Amazing, isn't it? And to think that there are people with that same mindset today! We need to look at every person as precious and valuable because THAT is the way that God sees them! When we do that, we will walk in the love that NEVER fails that we read about in 1 Corinthians 13. I LIKE the thought of NOT failing, don't you?
2 Chronicles 8-9 recounts what we read earlier about Solomon. We know that he asked God for wisdom and we know that God gave him GREAT wisdom AND riches and honor besides. 2 Chronicles 9:22-23 tell us the extent of the wisdom that God had granted to Solomon:
22King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. 23And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had put into his mind.
Now THAT is SOME wisdom! Amen! You and I have been given access to all of the Wisdom of God that Solomon had! Let's be better possessors of our wisdom! Let's show forth God's Wisdom to the world. They NEED Him!
Shalom in Him!
