NOTES for Psa 94

The denunciation of the wicked begins with a call to repay the proud. We have grown so accustomed to modern mass consciousness not considering pride a flaw that, even when we remember that pride is sinful, we still forget how it relates to other vices. Yet every time we proudly exalt ourselves, we claim a share of the authority that belongs to the Creator. For example, at the very moment when we begin to pass judgment and sentence in our hearts, we claim that we alone understand correctly “how things ought to be,” and as a result we try to become “like gods, knowing good and evil.”

But now we are called to come to our senses. We hear a reminder that, however profound our reasoning may seem to us, the Lord sees that it is futile. We now face a choice: humbly to acknowledge reality or to continue insisting upon our own infallibility. We can choose the second path, but sooner or later, as we follow it, we will become mired in the swamp of wickedness. Then, having rejected the one Advocate, we will have only ourselves to blame and will have to bear the consequences of our own disgraceful deeds.