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There are things I wish I had done differently in my life. And perhaps there is something even now which you did of which you aren’t particularly proud. And that old devil keeps coming up and reminding you of it.
I think Psalm one hundred and nineteen, and verse six may help us both:
Psa 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Having spoken in this great Psalm of the blessings that come on those who keep the ways of God and seek his face, having observed that they do no iniquity, and that God has commanded us to keep his precepts diligently, the psalmist cried out heartbroken in verse five:
Psalm 119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Now, drawing himself up, he says with confidence:
Psa 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Beginning from right now!
All these first eight verses begin with the Hebrew letter ‘Aleph’, and here that first word is ‘awz’. It’s translated ‘then’ but it actually means ‘at that time’ or ‘beginning from now’. This is powerful. I know I’ve done wrong. I’ve cried out to keep God’s statutes, and he’s heard me, and I’m treating his commandments with respect and pleasure and honour. Now no-one can make me ashamed.
I know an ex-con who kept being taken aside every time he went through passport control at the airport. He knew it was because a record of his crimes kept popping up on their computer screen and it made him feel ashamed. But then he remembered this passage from Paul’s letter to the church in Rome, and he pulled himself up:
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Move into the present
You, like our psalmist, can turn your back on the ways of the world, or the flesh, and walk in the ways of the Lord by the power of the Holy Spirit. We all have a past, but it’s time to move into the present. If you have repented of all you have done wrong, if you have been washed clean in the blood of Christ, if you are now doing it all according to God’s way, no-one can make you ashamed.
Not even you have the right to make you ashamed. Yes, things keep coming up. ‘If only I had done it differently!’ But you cannot have your time over again. You can only start from where you are. I know it’s hard, and healing sometimes takes time, but it’s do-able, by the grace of God.
The great nineteenth century preacher, Charles Spurgeon, said of this verse: ‘We will always have cause for shame till every sin is vanquished, and every duty is observed. When we pay a continual and universal respect to the will of the Lord, then we shall be able to look ourselves in the face in the looking glass of the law, and we shall not blush at the sight of men or devils, however eager their malice may be to lay somewhat to our charge.’
But don’t you be ashamed of God
And I love this from Spurgeon:
‘When we are on the king’s highway by daylight, and are engaged upon royal business, we need ask no man’s leave. There is nothing to be ashamed of in a holy life; a man may be ashamed of his pride, ashamed of his wealth, ashamed of his own children, but he will never be ashamed of having in all things regarded the will of the Lord his God.’
But the key word is ‘all’. Don’t yourself be ashamed of any of God’s commandments in scripture. If you are ashamed of any, he’ll be ashamed of you and you’ll be ashamed of yourself. You don’t want even one weak link in your spiritual armour.
Your portion will not be shame from this day, in Jesus’ name, because you will be respecting God in every detail. You’ll have nothing to be ashamed of in a God-fearing life.
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