Today's Meditation
Read Psalm 12
1Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly; the faithful have disappeared from humankind.
2They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
3May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
4those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is our master?”
5“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”
6The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
7You, O Lord, will protect us; you will guard us from this generation forever.
8On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among humankind.
I remember my grandmother often saying that she didn't know or understand what the world was coming to when she saw people treating others badly, when she saw new technology she didn't understand, when she heard of things in the news that disturbed her. I hear the same sentiment from time to time from my mother and over the past few months, I've thought or uttered something akin to it myself.
But verse one shouts out to me from this psalm today, "Help, O Lord for there is no longer anyone who is godly; the faithful have disappeared from humankind."
And yet, in spite of what we witness and hear, there is a message in this from God in verse 5, "'Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,' says the Lord; 'I will place them in the safety for which they long.'"
The world may not be filled with the godly, but there are still some left and until our last breath, we will rise up and be part of God's blessing on this earth.
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