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O Lord, you know all about this. 
Do not stay silent. 
Do not abandon me now, O Lord. 
Wake up! 
Rise to my defense! 
Take up my case, 
my God and my Lord. Declare me not guilty, 
O Lord my God, 
for you give justice. 
Don't let my enemies laugh about me in my troubles. 
Don't let them say, 
"Look, we got what we wanted! 
Now we will eat him alive!"
Psalms 35:22-25 NLT
David is in the middle of something and this is his cry. 
He's not saying God isn't there, just wants him to act. 
To sort it. 
To fix it. 
He's been treated unjustly and simply wants justice, someone to stand with him, be on his team. 
There's days when we all want that, need that. 
From our perspective in time we can look back and see that God had intervened many times in the Hebrew world, and yet God's people kept moving away from Him. 
And then Jesus arrived. 
God dwelling with us, which always reminds us we're not abandoned, and which ushered in a whole new way of God being at work. And he calls us to follow Jesus as the change maker, the righter of injustice, the people who stand for and with the marginalised and the hurt. 
People in our world, in our orbit are saying this now ;
"Do not stay silent. 
Do not abandon me now"
Maybe this is you today.
One day, all will be made new, and every tear will be wiped away, mopped up, held...until then let's not be silent in the face of injustice, and not abandon those who feel alone. 
#psalms
#psalm35
#justice
#notabandoned

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