Vindicate me O Lord Against My Slanderers

Dr. F.B. Meyer counsels, "We make a great mistake in trying always to clear ourselves; we should be much wiser to go straight on, humbly doing the next thing, and leaving God to vindicate us. 'He will bring forth our righteousness as the light, and our judgment as the noonday.' In Psalm 105:19 there follow words which, rightly rendered, read thus: 'The word of the Lord cleared him.' What a triumphant clearing did God give His faithful servant. There will come hours in our lives, when we shall be misconstrued, misunderstood, slandered, falsely accused, wrongfully persecuted. At such times it is very difficult not to act on the policy of the men around us in the world. They at once appeal to law and force and public opinion. But the believer takes his case into a higher court, and lays it before his God. He is prepared to use any means that may appear divinely suggested. But he relies much more on the divine clearing than he does on his own most perfect arrangements. He is content to wait for months and years, till God arise to avenge his cause. It is a very little thing for him to be judged adversely at the bar of man: he cares only for the judgment of God, and awaits the moment when the righteous shall shine forth in the kingdom of their Father, as the sun when it breaks from all obscuring mists. 'When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.' Ah! what a clearing-up of mysteries, what dissipating of misunderstandings, what vindication of character shall be there! Oh, slandered ones, you can afford to await the verdict of eternity; of God, who will bring out your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noon day." Dr. F.B. Meyer (1847-1929) in Joseph: Beloved, Hated, Exalted (London: Morgan and Scott LTD, 1910), 61-62.

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