Psalm 12
We have a tendency to believe what we hear. All the advice to the contrary, we tend to be shaped by conversations around us. David is distressed because the godly man is no more. Surrounded by the conversations of those who speak what is false and flatter each other, the godly are gone. Perhaps they have moved away; more likely, they have conformed to the wicked talk around them. Consider our day: popular media spouts all sorts of wickedness and then congratulates or flatters those who talk this way.
The righteous man will always be oppressed in such an environment or culture. But God sets the righteously oppressed in a place of safety. He sets him in safety both by and in His words. These words are pure. Pure beyond the capacity of the wicked to understand. The righteous, in these words, will be preserved from this generation, even as the wicked continue to strut about.
“Lord, preserve me even if I stand alone. AMEN”
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