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CHAPTER 101
David sings of mercy and judgment—He will forsake the company of evildoers. |
David states he sings of mercy and judgement, but his psalm is of judgement and not of mercy—He will forsake the company of all preceived evildoers and not keep any company of who he preceives to be wicked—Thus David's judgement without mercy will stand against himself. | |
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1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
2 I will behave myself awisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. |
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3 I will set no wicked thing before mine
eyesa: I hate the work of them that
turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
4 A afroward heart shall depart from me: I will not bknow a wicked person. 5 Whoso privily aslandereth his neighboura, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I bsuffer. |
3a I will set no wicked thing before mine
eyes This is an admiral sentiment, but when one lives in this
world of corruption, one who lives in the would will have such trust before
his eyes whether he seeks it or not. The best that one can do is to avoid it
as best as possible. And when one is confronted with it, if at all possible
one would control himself to turn away therefrom. But in some cases, the
sight of it requires some type of action such as in war. With death before
one's eyes he cannot merely turn away from it and run. It is called upon to
deal with it and deal with it he must, acting a well he can based upon
righteous principles. Such was the lot of many of the Nephites in the Book
of Mormon. The wars of the invading Lamanites often thrust themselves
immediately before the eyes of such righteous men, who based upon the
principles of righteousness took action to defend their wives, and their
children, their liberty and their religion. Evil and wickedness can not just
be ignored and taken out of view in this world of corruption. When it is
possible and feasible such is a worthy course. But when one is called upon
to deal with it immediately, one must not turn aside from it least it over
come through the ignoring of it.
5a Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor One of the easiest sins to fall into is that of 'slandering' another's name behind their back. It comes in such forms as 'gossip' and belittling the name of another so as to make one's self to appear to be the greater than he. 'Slander' itself entails the telling of a 'lie' or 'fabrication' about someone else. Yet such lies of slander are often burried in the half truths of singular perspective and a lack of the representation of the whole story of the matter from any and all other of the various perspectives which may also apply to the circumstance. Therefore the safest rule to follow is not to be the 'bearer of tales' and to find fault and to critize another in any such form of gossip so exercised privily behind ones back. Though this threatens to extinguish the bulk of the whole of 'polite' public conversation, it ought to be so applied in one's every day life. It is so easy to slip not only into so stating such about another, but to also so become implicite in the occurance when one merely nods or stands silent in seeming approval of agreement with the context of the matter being so put forth about one's neighbor. It comes down to such simple principles as 'judge not that ye be not judged' and 'if you can't say something nice about someone, then don't say anything at all', even to the point of defending other is such implicite circumstance to so state that you wouldn't know about such things about the other person and do not appreciate being part of such conversations. |
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6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the
land, that they may dwell with me: he that awalketh in a
bperfect way, he shall serve me.
7 He that worketh adeceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth blies shall not tarry in my sight. 8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
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