51 - The proud have had me
greatly in derision:
yet have I not
declined from thy law.
"Proud men never love gracious men, and as they fear them they veil their fear under a pretended contempt. In this case their hatred revealed itself in ridicule, and that ridicule was loud and long. When they wanted sport they made sport of David because he was God's servant.
Men must have strange eyes to be able to see a farce in faith, and a comedy in holiness; yet it is sadly the case that men who are short of wit can generally provoke a broad grin by jesting at a saint.
Conceited sinners make footballs of godly men.
They call it roaring fun to caricature a faithful member of "The Holy Club": his methods of careful living are the material for their jokes about "the Methodist": and his hatred of sin sets their tongues wagging at long faced Puritanism, and straitlaced hypocrisy.
If David was greatly derided, we may not expect to escape the scorn of the ungodly.
There are hosts of proud men still upon the face of the earth, and if they find a believer in affliction they will be mean enough and cruel enough to make jests at his expense.
It is the nature of the son of the bondwoman to mock the child of the promise."
~ Charles Spurgeon
Negative peer pressure is not a new thing!
© 2012 by Melani Brady Shock
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