Bible Reading: Psalm 109:1-5; 26-31
Key Verse: Verse 3 - “They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.”
Key Words: with words of hatred
Psalm 109 gives us some insight to what Absalom and Ahithophel were saying about David. In our text verse David describes their words as “hatred.” It is a strong word meaning “odious, repulsive, sickening.” So the stories David’s enemies were telling about David made David look odious, repulsive, sickening.
Abraham Lincoln, America's most beloved president, was anything but beloved while he was in office. The South hated him. The anti-war activists hated him. Democrats hated him, calling him a widow-maker. The media ridiculed his eyes, looks, and body, calling him a freak of nature. Harpers magazine did so much as to call him a host of names in print: filthy storyteller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate. But Abraham Lincoln would not stoop down to the level of his critics. He won over a lot of his enemies and critics by holding fast to this famous principle encapsulated in his second inaugural address: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right.”
So, when people are speaking hatefully of you, it is really they who are odious, repulsive, and sickening to God.
What to do:
✞ Be like President Lincoln and don’t stoop down to their level.
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