O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
Psalm 4:2 KJV
We continue our look at the Psalms and see how they point to or testify of Jesus as he indicated in John 5 and Luke 24 when he said:
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
John 5:39 KJV
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Luke 24:44 KJV
This article, and others found in Questions From the Psalms, focus specifically on questions taken directly from the book of Psalms and illustrates how they speak of or connects to Jesus.
The question for this article is the second of two questions asked in Psalm 4:2.
O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah
The first question can be found here:
In the article based on Psalm 2:1, the question of “why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing” was explored:
There, we saw that vanity is: any/all efforts to build anything (our lives or the systems we live by) where God is excluded (Psalm 127). Therefore, to love vanity is to love and build life without God. The person who loves life without God effectively hates God, and those that hate God (love vanity) love death:
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 8:36 KJV
Leasing speaks of lying or deceit and one of the greatest lies one could believe, is thinking we “live” or “will live” when we “love vanity & seek leasing”. When we seek leasing (lies) and love vanity, we walking in the path of death: Drugs, sexual immorality, the love of money, the pursuit of worldly pleasure, inordinate affections, in short: all that is in the world:
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John 2:16 KJV
Those who “love vanity & seek leasing” are holding hands with the destroyer, and will destroy others and be destroyed themselves by the very one they are walking in agreement with.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
John 10:10 KJV
Now this question of Psalm 4 concerns/testifies of Jesus, because the question of the psalmist begins with “how long”, that is to say, when will we stop “seek after leasing” and “loving vanity“.
Seeking after leasing is seeking lies, this ends when we seek truth
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 14:6 KJV
Love of vanity ends when we love the word of God and build our lives by his (Jesus) instruction:
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: [25] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Matthew 7:24-25 KJV
So the answer to the question of:
Psalm 4:2 ….how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?
The “how long” is unique to each person, but what’s universal to us all is this: vanity ends when one builds their life upon the word of God, Jesus is the word of God, leasing ends with truth, Jesus is the Truth, . Jesus is the answer! Seek him!
