Week 2 Psalm 11
Question: How are things going for Israel in psalm 11?
Answer: the foundations of law and order have collapsed.
If the system has broken down into anarchy the next question would be: what-to-do?
A guy who isn’t identified offered some advice to David: fly to the mountains for safety… And bugging-out definitely seems like an instinctive & logical & self-protective plan.
But David’s reaction was counter-instinctive. First he said: I trust in the Lord for protection. Then he said: the Lord still rules from heaven. Which – when the structures of society are collapsing around me – seems – on the surface – naïve and maybe even kind of dumb.
I look around at what’s going on nationally. The country is coming apart and supply chains are breaking and virus is stalking us and we’re drowning in fiat currency. And every day is more news about war injustice poverty violence financial & economic collapse international-conflict income-inequality racial & ethnic-hatred here and everywhere and like that.
The world disintegrates so there’s no room for anything else but its wreckage.
But not from David’s viewpoint. However much the ruins of collapse fill things up he’s seeing a domain that’s uncluttered and free.
David concludes by saying: the Lord is righteous and he loves justice… In this psalm one of the points seems to be that total-looking collapse isn’t as total as it looks.
Which I’ve seen in the bible before. But it’s a hard thing to always stay convinced about.
Note: quotes from Psalm 11:1, 3, 7 (NLT)