THE STORY OF JESUS: Psalm 10
“Do not forget the helpless.” (Psalm 10:12)
I just read Viktor Frankl’s account of life in Nazi concentration camps.
What the guards did to their prisoners… it’s pure evil!
They acted exactly like the ‘wicked’ described in this psalm.
All of us have sin in our hearts, but not all of us give it free reign like this.
All over the world, all through history, there have been victims of this evil.
This psalm expresses the cry, and the hope, of the helpless.
Like Abel’s blood, it cries out to God, in judgment against the wicked (Genesis 4:10).
God will show mercy to the helpless and the humble, through Jesus’ blood (Hebrews 12:24).
Even the wicked can find mercy from God, if they humbly admit their crimes.
Murderers can find pardon if they genuinely repent of their sin.
But as long as anyone rejects God and His mercy, and lets sin reign in their lives…
They are under a curse, and they will be exposed and deposed.
Frankl noticed a change in the Nazi guards behaviour in the last days of the war.
They suddenly realized they were in trouble and tried to be nice to the prisoners.
This was not repentance, it was selfish fear, only for their own skin.
I read this Psalm as an encouragement to the helpless that God will not forget.
I also read it as a challenge to me not to forget the helpless either.
The day of justice is coming, and only the genuinely humble will be lifted up.
Jesus is on the side of the helpless… am I; Jesus hears the cries of victims… do I?
Am I complicit with evil by my inaction?
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, I am not helpless like this, and I am not cruel like this either. But there are helpless people all around me. Help me not to forget the helpless either, help me not to be complicit to evil by inaction.