October 26, 2019 -- Psalm 119:40 -- Longing for Order and Justice

Behold, I long for your precepts;

in your righteousness give me life!

Psalm 119:40 English Standard Version

A newborn found in a dumpster—and we cry out: “That is wrong!” We are longing for the justice of God’s precepts, the things God appoints to be done. Sadly, all you have to do is type “dumpster infant” into your search engine and you’ll find multiple cases in Canada and the U.S.A.

A man who claims he identifies as a woman is given housing in a woman’s shelter where he preys upon the women in the shelter. The women complain and they are told they are being transgender phobic. We cry out: “Where is the justice in all of this?” What we are actually crying for is that the laws of the LORD will be observed so that men, women and children will be protected.

More illegal drugs are hitting the streets. Unscrupulous gangs cut these drugs with all kinds of substances to increase their profits. This also makes a dangerous substance toxic. Police agencies continually have to issue bulletins and media warnings that particular batches of illegals are known to be lethal. It is the height of insanity. Behold, I LONG for Your precepts.

Yesterday, a well-known Canadian environmentalist had his foundation act as a partner in a lawsuit launched by 15 Canadian youth against the government, suing the government over climate change This Canadian environmentalist himself co-owns an island with a big oil company. The irony of it would be funny if it weren’t to blatantly painful and wrong. Our news media and our government have so whipped up climate fears that children feel unsafe and there are now diagnoses of climate fears disrupting children’s ability to function. Living God, Sovereign—Who holds the past and the present, the day of Judgment and the New Heavens and New Earth in His power—we long for Your rules to take hold of our land and restore sanity.

Big Pharma have drugs to help people fight various diseases. CEO’s set prices as high as the market and insurance companies can bear. Long gone are the days of medical pioneers who refused to patent their vaccines and drugs so that they would remain affordable to all people. Today, those in distress shout till they are hoarse at the injustice of soaring medical costs and drug costs and insurers who refuse to pay. God of Compassion only Your laws can bring order from chaos.

The suicide rate among Indigenous males is 126 per 100,00, in the general population the rate of suicide among males is 24 per 100,000. The suicide rate among Indigenous females is 35 per 100,000 compared to 5 for non-Indigenous females, according to thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Add to this Canada’s abortion and euthanasia statistics and we are surrounded by a culture of hopelessness and death. God, I long for Your precepts—Your rules and Your Word which give sacred purpose and meaning to our lives.

Humanity is not “basically good”. We are sin-filled and without hope. When the Word of the LORD touches us, we have the light of life shown to us in Jesus Christ and from Him hope and purpose fill our vision. In God our Father we have the God Who alone is powerful to help and lovingly willing to help. He sends to us the Spirit Who changes us from the inside out so that we empowered to be the people who bring to this broken and grief-riddled world hope and help in the Name of Jesus.

Hear our prayer, O LORD, attend unto our cry—from the ends of the earth we cry to You when our hearts are overwhelmed. Lead us to the Rock, Jesus, Who is higher than the storms, greater than the chaos. Grant Your Spirit to awaken us to be people of prayer and bringers of hope. Mighty God, we long for Your precepts, in Your righteousness give us life and allow us to be Your ambassadors—light and life bringers to this world of hurting. In Jesus’ Name we pray this. Amen.