4/09/19

Psalm 119:126

It is time for the Lord to act, for your law has been broken.

This Psalm is the greatest acrostic poems ever written.  It does not have a wasted word in it.  It is just written with extreme simplicity and yet any point in it deserves the deepest consideration of the reader.

The writer considers his place of observation in his age and determines that God must act for His own honor.  The Law of God is more than transgressed, it is “broken”.  That is, “no longer containing or binding up”.

That is the same feeling that our system of justice gives in our time.  Our system of justice is broken.  Or somehow it has come to be manipulated against the intent.  The evil-doer is protected and the ordinary citizen is exploited.

The Christian is prone to say with the writer in Psalm 44:22B “We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered all day long.”

I read on Sunday a prayer request for three black Baptist churches in La. that had been burned.  It is truly “time for the Lord to act”.  His law is broken.

There are so many similarities between this angry Socialist minority that has gained leadership

 in the most important political positions and Germany of the early 1930s that it is at least cautionary.  The Christians cry and prayer is “it is time for the Lord to act”.