The troubled days in which we live can easily depress or pollute and we need to renew our focus on righteousness and God our righteous judge—this will bring help, hope, and comfort to God’s church.

By any fair reckoning, this last year has been abnormal – yet the current covid-19 crisis was eclipsed momentarily, earlier this week, by constitutional chaos in D.C. It is not necessary to apportion blame to simply remark that four precious lives were lost in the riot. These tragic fatalities included one ex-military marcher named Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt (a 35-year old San Diego resident), along with Brian D. Sicknick, a capitol police officer, who also perished in the violence. At least 52 other miscreants were arrested for a variety of offences – chiefly, it seems, for breaking curfew orders. If we throw in, for good measure, a rising debt mountain, worrying unemployment figures, a semi-paralysed education system, mass on-demand abortion, coupled with rampant societal moral filth & pollution, we are probably correct in gauging that foundations are quaking if not breaking.

As I read, sang and prayed Psalm 11 in my morning devotions today, I was reminded of David’s action plan recommended by the Spirit. I resolved, by grace, to remember God is fundamentally just: if lawlessness roams the precincts, evildoers stalk the church, or error parades as truth…

The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD’s throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of men – Psalm 11:4.

Not only that, but I also firmly resolved, by grace, to remind myself, more often, that Yahweh is morally righteous, and his Lawgiving soul hates lawbreaking…

The LORD tests the righteous, but His souls hates the wicked and the one who loves violence – Psalm 11:5.

I also resolved in my heart, more and more, to seek God’s grace to shun all forms of unrighteousness wherever it is found – in my own mind & in media of all forms…

For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold His face – Psalm 11:7.

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