6 The Lord works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.
This world stinks. It’s also really really wonderful. But the bad parts are really bad. Hard to even look at.
As we continue our Summer Psalm meditation on Psalm 103, we can find comfort in a wicked world.
I read a book recently that I can’t even in good conscience recommend to y’all. It was a suspense thriller about how today’s digital systems profit from pushing users toward progressively darker, more violent, and more dehumanizing content, especially through the phenomenon of personally monetized porn.
I don’t like knowing what I now know. You know what they say about not being able to un-see things.
You don’t have to have read this book to relate. Our phones send us catastrophic news from all over the planet all day long. It doesn’t matter whether your algorithm is feeding you stories of corrupt dictators or or online child predators or drug traffickers or human traffickers, it is easy to feel helpless, terrified or enraged by the wicked world in which we live.
Throw in the fact that you’ve got kids under your roof that you’d like to keep safe and, well…
This world stinks.
And if it feels hopeless, it’s because it is–for us. But not for God.
The promises of God are essential when the realities of the world flood over us and seek to overwhelm us. He sees it all. Every single child bride and homeless vet and abused kid and starving mother. He sees the way the sin in this world crushes people again and again. And He will not tolerate it. There will be a reckoning. There will be vengeance. And one day there will be perfect righteousness and justice.
There’s no help or hope for this world apart from Jesus. Bless Him because:
6 The Lord works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.