CASTING DOWN THE
WORKER OF INIQUITY
Psalm 36: 1: The transgression of the wicked,
saith within my heart, that there is
no fear of God before his eyes. 2: For he flattereth himself in his own eyes,
until his iniquity be found to be hateful…. 5: Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth
unto the clouds. 6: Thy righteousness is
like the great mountains; thy judgments are
a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast 7: How excellent is thy
lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the
shadow of thy wings…9: For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light
shall we see light…12: There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast
down, and shall not be able to rise.
When my
old man of sin begins to reign over me, the only way I am delivered is by the
Spirit of Christ. He speaks into my new man making me see that my sinful flesh
is “the wicked worker of iniquity.” When I think myself anything more, the Spirit
reveals it is only my sinful flesh “flattering
himself in his own eyes.” But the
lust of my flesh can only flatter “until
his iniquity be found to be hateful.” The Holy Spirit renews my new man, making
the iniquity of my sinful flesh hateful to me.
Then, beholding my own sinful flesh, “the
transgression of the wicked, saith within my heart, that there is no fear of
God before his eyes.”
Then the Spirit magnifies God my Father and
my Lord Jesus to me bringing me to praise him for his unchanging mercy,
faithfulness, righteousness and lovingkindess by which he preserves me when I
am more beast than man. Once again, he brings me to trust under the shadow of
his wings.
Then
I am brought to give God, through my Lord Jesus Christ, all the glory for once
again delivering me from the body of this death. Lord, once again you have
shown me that with thee is the fountain of life: in thy Light shall we see
light. There, in Christ thy Light, is the worker of iniquity within me, once
again, fallen: there, in Christ thy Light, is he cast down within me. And as long as you make me see light in thy
Light, Lord, he shall not be able to rise.