Psalm 119:126

Psalm 119:126

Time for the Lord to act?

Phew! Have we ever prayed these words to the Lord? The writer of this verse could have been thinking about his own situation which, as we have seen, was pretty dire. He might also have been surveying the state of the nation or even the world and his words here are a cry from the heart, “Lord, look at the mess things are in. Look at the way the world is treating you. Look at the rebellion and disobedience all around me. Lord, it is time for you to act, I cannot resolve this alone, Your Law is being broken on every hand. Please, Lord, do something!”

There are, undoubtedly, many Christians whose heads are in the sand and who are content for things to just jog along as they have always done. Many tell me that they do not watch the News or read a newspaper or listen to what is going on because they find it all too depressing. This is neither the time nor place to start listing all the problems that are facing our world or even our local communities. What we do know is that the more men rebel against God’s Word and disobey His laws, the more sin prevails and righteousness retreats. Paul sums this up very clearly in Romans 1: 18-32. A key phrase in the chapter is “God gave them over”. (v24, 26 and 28.) Because of man’s lawlessness, God removes His protection, He lets mankind go so that humanity falls into deeper and deeper sin and has to bear the consequences of being no longer protected. This ultimately leads to destruction, it always does. In that sense, maybe God is already acting. The writer of the Psalm was a Jew, he felt moved to pray for himself and his people that the Lord would act and restore them. Can we pray for the church in a similar manner? Maybe it is too late to pray this for our world, it seems that God has already “given them over!”

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