The Straight Path
Part 3 of 4
Then, David says the statutes of our Lord are “right”. He uses “yashar”, which means “straight” or “upright”. The psalmist says in 119: 137-138, “Righteous are You, O Lord, and upright are Your ways. Your testimonies, which You have commanded, are righteous and very faithful”. And, David said in 25: 8 of the Psalms, “Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He teaches sinners in the way”.
Webster says that which is “straight” is “free from curves, bends, angles, or irregularities”. He says it is “direct, not wandering from the main point or proper course…honest, upright, not marked by confusion…correctly arranged or ordered”. This is the character of our righteous Lord. Isaiah says of YHVH in 42: 16, “I will bring the blind by a way they did not know: I will lead them in paths they have not known, I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight”.
The writer of Proverbs said in 14: 12, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death”. The ways of man have always included curves, bends, angles, and inherent irregularities. They are fickle and marked by confusion, even at their best, while the ideals of our Father and Messiah are straight and pure.
It is Malachi that recorded the surety of our Lord in 3: 6 when he quoted YHVH saying, “For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob”. And, then James said in 1: 17 of the surety of our Lord, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with Whom there is no variation or shadow of turning”. This is the straight and smooth path of which David is speaking concerning the righteous statutes of his Master Shepherd.
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