We in North America live in a protected bubble, and sometimes when we read the Psalms we can easily go into the trap of "Oh, here goes David again, complaining about being chased around, and the verses are once again talking about wickedness .. talk about something else would ya?!?!" But the majority of the world get it, where we don't. The majority of the world don't complain about internet access, or have a major decision of the day being how to juggle all the kids' after school activities. One of the problems when we live in an overabundant society is that we don't understand the context of the scriptures, like some in other parts of the world do.
Take a look at an international news agency, like the BBC, and you begin to notice how blessed we are, but there are so many in the wold that are dealing with similar issues of 'wickedness' that David is singing about. In vs. 10 "Their helpless victims are crushed; they fall beneath the strength of the wicked."; vs. 8 "They lurk in ambush in the villages, waiting to murder innocent people. They are searching for helpless victims." David is wondering why the wicked seem to prospering .. and then at the end of the song we have vs. 17-18 "Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them. You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, so mere people can no longer terrify them."
Some people ask "Where is God in all of this"; "Why doesn't God do something about this" ... yet that's our job isn't it? That's what God has called us to do ... look after the oppressed, seek justice (Isaiah 58). We can count our blessing and when we do, we need to realize that there is cost to the blessing, and that's to bless others ... pray for others. Again the whole idea of Loving others as God loved us, and seeing the world as God sees it.
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