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Psalm 10:17-18 (Amplified Bible)

O Lord, You have heard the desire and the longing of the humble and oppressed; You will prepare and strengthen and direct their hearts, You will cause Your ear to hear, to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man, who is of the earth, may not terrify them any more.


If I believe that all the other stuff I read in the Bible is true, then this must be too. I have to believe that this is true. Sometimes I look around at the state of the world, I watch the news, I talk to a colleague at work trying to put the pieces of a broken family back together and I don't get it. I don't get it at all. Like this scripture says, people are terrified, fathers are leaving their babies and people are walking around under dark clouds oppression and loneliness. This verse acknowledges, very clearly, the state of our world with the picture of a very compassionate God who, despite what we have managed to create of this world, listens to the cries of the human race. He doesn't miss a thing. He is very near.

This scripture is full and full of hope for the hopeless and broken: God will bring relief and peace to the human race, especially the ones who are suffering unfair amounts in this unbalanced earth. There is hope, but I also read loads amounts of responsibility on us lovers of Jesus, believers in our Lord and Savior, to try and fix the mess of the world. Unless we live under a rock, there is no way to escape the pain and terror in the eyes and hearts of people around us. There is no way we can ignore the loneliness in the eyes of the fatherless, unloved and depressed precious ones around us. We can't ignore the poorest of the poor who roam our rich cozy streets, or those suffer from no fault of their own.

You may be in a third world country, you could be at your trendy office from 9-5. Either way there are broken ones everywhere, and our hope and consolation is that God hears and WILL bring justice. And maybe one of the ways he will listen and vindicate is through you and me. Keep your hearts and ears alert. Listen to what the people are crying out, and listen to what heaven is telling you to do.