3. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes. I will neither delight in it, aim at it, or endure it. If I have
wickedness brought before me by others I will turn away from it. The psalmist
is very sweeping—no wicked thing; not only shall it not
dwell in his heart, but not even before his eyes. I hate the work of them that turn aside. He did not view it with indifference, but with utter scorn
and abhorrence. Hatred of sin is a good sentinel for the door of virtue. David
would pay no secret service money; he loathed the practices of people who
deviate from righteousness. It is greatly to be deplored that in after years he
did not keep himself clear in this matter in every case, though in the main he
did. How much we all need divine keeping! We are no more perfect than David;
indeed we fall far short of him in many things; and, like him, we shall need to
write a psalm of penitence very soon after our psalm of good resolution. It shall not cleave to me. I will disown their ways, I will not imitate their
policy; like dirt it may fall upon me, but I will wash it off, and never rest
till I am rid of it. Sin, like pitch, is very apt to stick. In the course of
our family history crooked things will turn up, for we are all imperfect, and
some of those around us are far from being what they should be; it must,
therefore, be one great object of our care to disentangle ourselves. This
cannot be done unless the Lord both comes to us, and abides with us evermore.
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