Psalms 12:1-8 (NLT)
1 For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument. Help, O LORD, for the godly are fast disappearing! The faithful have vanished from the earth!
2 Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.
3 May the LORD cut off their flattering lips and silence their boastful tongues.
4 They say, “We will lie to our hearts’ content. Our lips are our own—who can stop us?”
5 The LORD replies, “I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for me to do.”
6 The LORD’s promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over.
7 Therefore, LORD, we know you will protect the oppressed, preserving them forever from this lying generation,
8 even though the wicked strut about, and evil is praised throughout the land.
In the middle of a time when it seems like the wicked are running unscathed by the lies and the devastation they inflict, it is a comfort to consider and be confident in the surety that God’s justice will be rendered. There will be an end to this. Just because the lies are spouted off with audacity and boldness doesn’t give them any validity. Truth is still the truth, and right is still right no matter how much the proud think they have awoken to something better. No matter how much it ages, the truth never changes. It just gets confirmed more and more with each passing moment.
Rather than getting frustrated and anxious about the apparent prevailing of blatant error and its violence done to the helpless, it is so good to focus on the One who is holy, righteous, just, and true, quite apart from any other opinion. Instead of being emotionally swayed in the least by the meanderings of lawlessness, it so assuring to go ever deeper into the refuge of the Name of Jesus, established in righteousness that the unstable plans of the lying wicked will never touch. His promises never fail – are the same yesterday, today, and forever, and His justice will certainly prevail after every strutting, pompous, wicked spouter is long forgotten.