Psalm 12 – 14
David often touches on matters that apply to our world today. Each Psalm addresses some major issue we are having either personally or corporately as a nation. Psalm 12 is concerned all the faithful are gone. David showed the concern in verse 2:
Everyone utters lies to his neighbour;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
As with today when David said this I am sure it was an exaggeration since the faith would have died if David was the “only” one left. I assume it was an overwhelming majority who had drifted from God’s ways and not “everyone.” Even though this may be a stretch the words ring out to us:
8 On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among the children of man.
Where we may not be alone, we sure feel isolated. Today in the name of “freedom of religion” our faith is being stifled. No longer is Christianity being allowed “freedom” due to an over correction in the definition and leaning. As we see this is a “normal” cycle, but we still don’t have to agree, just remain faithful.
Chapter 13 gets into something I deal with constantly and that is God’s silence. Verse 1 opens with the questions:
How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How many times do you feel that way? I mean God is “omnipresent” yet many times we cannot see His work in our lives. Often it may be years after when we are connecting the dots that He appears. But one thing you need to be clear on, God is never away from you or forgets you. It only seems that way when we need to shift our focus or dig a little deeper.
Often this dovetails into chapter 14 where when it appears God is silent in our lives we conclude there must not be a God. Verse 1 again starts this pondering out:
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds,
there is none who does good.
We often are considered fools for believing in God, since science has “proven” this is just a random existence and we will cease to exist when we die. At the same time conservation of energy proves to me the spirit does not die, since the tremendous amount of energy required to drive this body is not there when we die. Why? It is because our spirit, or that energy, leaves the body to exist in the spiritual realm. We need to understand that for hundreds of years science has tried to explain away God and all that they end up doing is proving His existence or providing enough doubt to cause people to flee Him. Use science to understand God, not to dismiss Him!