Psalms 41:11-12
By this I know that you delight in me:
my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.
But you have upheld me because of my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.
Before you can really appreciate what King David is saying in the above Psalm, you have to read the verses prior to these two:
Psalms 41:4-10
As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against you!”
My enemies say of me in malice,
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words,
while his heart gathers iniquity;
when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
All who hate me whisper together about me;
they imagine the worst for me.
They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him;
he will not rise again from where he lies.”
Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
But you, O Lord, be gracious to me,
and raise me up, that I may repay them!
David, as a young man, was being hunted and haunted by the anger of King Saul. As a king he was actually run out of the kingdom by his own son and made a mockery by the citizens, as he left with his tail between his legs. We have all had times when our "friend" betrayed us and caused us to wonder what is happening in our lives. In the above passage we see that David takes responsibility for his own sin and then gives the rest to God. Only God can avenge the actions of others against us. We must only take responsibility for our own sins. God can and does see that those who mistreat others are reckoned with. That is not our responsibility, however, as we see in the above Psalm. The truth is, God knows our hurt and our heart. We are to confess the sins of our heart and let Him care for the hurt. When we live our lives in His Word we have integrity and we can allow that "walk with God" to be our "talk to other people" by God's care and corrective action in their lives and our own. David delighted in God's care when under attack from the false acquisitions of others.
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