12:1 "Help, O Lord, for the godly are fast disappearing! The faithful have vanished from the earth! Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts."
"Gone are the good old days!" some people often say. It's easy to look back and ponder our past and see how good things were. We can look at society and think back to 'simpler' times and consider how good things were way back when we were young, as opposed to how they are now. Truth is, there was no such thing as good old days. Our minds have a tendency to play tricks on us, and keep up from remembering the 'not so good' events in our lives. It's a survival mechanism that's God put in us to help us cope with certain situations and move on.
History has never been quiet (depending on who wrote the history textbooks), and in todays passage we see that David is crying out. In vs. 1 he is saying much the same things that perhaps people are saying today in our congregations, and even in our workplaces. But we don't, and should live in the past, or even in today. David says (or sings) in verse 6 "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace purified seven times over" We live for His promises His tomorrow today.
God's tomorrow is better than our best day, and that is something to look forward to.
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