How long, O Lord? 

How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?

How long will they speak with arrogance? 

How long will these evil people boast?

They crush your people, Lord, 

hurting those you claim as your own.

Psalms 94:3-5 NLT 

Grief, suffering, wondering whether God is ever going to do anything about some of the evil in this world...the writer of this song is right there.

Crying out. 

This song tells us a few things;

It's OK to name injustice (see v6 - gets quite specific)

It's OK to cry out.

It's OK to cry out to God.

It's OK to complain to Him about injustice, about what's wrong.

It's OK to speak, your voice matters. 

The problems in our world can seem so big, there's so much, and it can seem like too much, overwhelming. And when that threatens we can use the words of the Psalms to realise it's not just us who have felt that way, who cannot accept that the way things are is how they should be, or how our God wants them to be. 

And perhaps in songs like Ps94 we can find some expression that helps us.

And it may motivate us in some way to step towards the problems, the injustices, the wrong, and to bring a little hope, a little healing, some love and care. 

Ps 94 joins a thread from centuries ago of knowing that the shalom, the wholeness that we all long for, is not here fully here yet...

#psalms 

#psalm94

#itsOKnottobeOKwiththeworldasitis