Now
let us come to the contents of the first eight verses, beginning with the first
letter Aleph. “Blessed
are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in
the law of the Lord!” First of all,
he [wants us here to know] that we understand not wherein our blessedness
consists, and the reason is, because we are blind, and do live in the world as
savage and wild beasts, utterly void of sense and reason; and suffer ourselves
to be led and carried away [by] our brutish and swine-ish affections and
lusts. And because it is so, that we are
thus carried away, it is a manifest sign and token that we discern not good
from evil. Or else that the devil has so
bewitched us… True it is that the most
wicked will confess and say that they desire to be saved but yet in the desire
thereof, they clearly fly from it, and go as clean away from it as they can for
their lives.
But
what is the cause why they so greatly withdraw themselves from that which they
so highly protest to love? Yes, they
draw as near unto it as they can possibly fly from it. By this it seems that that they have
conspired to … make little account of that good which God means to do for them.
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Calvin knows
human nature well. We do not know what
it is that really blesses us and makes us happy. Wicked people say, on the one hand, that they want to be saved, yet on the other, will
go as fast as their feet will take them away from where their salvation may be
found. They have agreed together to make
light of Christ and His salvation, which God intends for their good. Let us stay close to, and serve, Christ in
Whom alone is our eternal well-being to be found, and serve only Him. Let us get to know Him better as we study the Word prayerfully.
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