Psalm 41
This is the closing psalm of Book 1 of the Psalms. In this First Book, as before noted, the Jews are considered, their thoughts and feelings, as led out by the Holy Spirit, are told, while still they are tolerated among the godless majority of their nation.
Psalm 42, opening the Second Book, deals with the godly Jews outside of Jerusalem, compelled to withdraw because of the danger from their enemies, and the city being now given over to wickedness.
Psalm 41 points to the blessedness of understanding God's ways in the present contrary circumstances. Those who do so are sustained, and will be delivered, shall be made happy ultimately, and are now watched over in their weakness and exposure to their enemies. The realization that sin has brought on the present chastening, is seen again here (verse 4).
Verse 9 puts in our minds that particular sorrow of Jesus, that Judas, one of the twelve, should betray Him (Matthew 26:21).
The Psalm, and the Book, closes with blessing God from eternity to eternity.
Surely adoration flows out from every. Christian heart to Him, as we think of His love and what He has been pleased to do in giving His Son for us by sin undone.
In this First Book of the Psalms we have had many glimpses of Jesus, the Beloved One, as He was while traversing this world of sin and woe: in every scene perfectness shines, whether He be seen alone, as the Sin Bearer; or identifying Himself with the remnant of the Jews for their encouragement and hope. We are also privileged to see and enter into the earlier feelings of the remnant as under the influence of the Holy Spirit, without the greater knowledge and intelligence properly belonging to those who are children of God today. Those look for deliverance, for the setting up of Christ's kingdom, and meanwhile they suffer because of their sins.
Messages of God’s Love 9/21/1930