I was reading along, minding my own business. In Psalm 69 David is bemoaning his situation. His general feeling is that everyone is out to get him and nothing is going right. It is good to read the open confessions of the man who is described as a “man after God’s own heart”. He is down in the dumps. If you are with him keep in mind that you are in good company.
Then I read a verse that I thought must have come out of a current press release.
(Psa 69:4 NAS77) Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies, What I did not steal, I then have to restore.Does this not describe where so many of us are today if we are believers in Jesus Christ and the values of truth and morality that go with that belief? We are hated and the powers that be are out to destroy us.
Then comes the reparations. Yes, reparations. Read that last sentence again and then think about the analysis that is coming out of the recent debates in California: A state that has never had slavery is demanding that people who never owned slaves pay a lot of money to people who were never slaves. Go a little deeper. Your ancestors may have died fighting to end slavery. On the other side your ancestors may have emigrated after slavery was illegal. The big bucks are still supposed to be transferred.
Shades of ancient Israel.
Maybe the next step with be the scapegoat route. When someone of the right ethnic combination is convicted of a crime maybe we need a law that says someone totally innocent of the crime but from the wrong ethnic combination should do the jail time.
Do I hear an “Amen”?
homo unius libri
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