Who will protect me from the wicked?

Who will stand up for me against evildoers?

Psalm 94:16 NLT

The writer of this song felt alone, knows what it's like to be treated unjustly, unfairly, to feel exposed, unprotected. 

The writer knows too what despair is;

v18

"Unless the Lord had helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave." 

Where was the singwriters community? 

Why did no person stand up for them, stand with them?

Jesus sets us the example of entering in to the world of the marginalised and standing with them, bringing healing and hope, standing against injustice.

And he calls us to follow him.

This can be a costly thing to do, but our world seems to have plenty of despair, a surplus of injustice, and a need for us to hear one anothers need for protection, to be that protection.

Is there an opportunity, a  way, to be a little more of that in our community, in the lives of those we love?

#psalms

#psalm94

#injustice 

#despair

#hope

#healing

#itstartswithlistening

#loveinaction