I have a question for you. I bet I already know the answer, it is the same for just about all of us.

Is there someone in your life, with power and influence, who is making your circumstances difficult for you?

The sad thing is this person can be in your own home, your boss, on the board of your HOA, or the president of the United States. (This is as political as I will get). These folks are contributing in their own way to the mess the world is in, and that mess makes its way through our front doors at times. As much as we would like to think that most situations and people are Not Our Circus, Not Our Clowns, we still find ourselves at times sitting ringside to trouble. Just look at the world around us. I don’t think I need to be specific about what is going on. So many things as I used to say have just “gone stupid.” There is a bluegrass song by Sturgill Simpson that Diane and I listen to that includes the lyrics “Life ain’t fair and the world is mean.” Man, those words seem so true at times. It becomes worse when we think that there is no hope for improvement or for repair. I am here to tell you that it is just plain wrong to feel that way.

God still “stands in the congregation of the mighty”, and He with a capital H rules among the judges of this world. Verse one of Psalm 82 proclaims that those who see themselves as gods, with a small g, in the eyes of people are no gods to our God.

We need to remember that when injustice, unfairness, persecution, you get the picture, takes place in our lives or in the lives of those around us, we still have a high court in which to plead our case. And the judge who sits over this court will one day judge all the nations, well more than that, He will one day rule over all people, and we will be at His side. In the meantime, don’t be discouraged, and remember this verse

I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. Psalm 37:5

Psalm 82

A psalm of Asaph.

1 God presides in the great assembly;

    he renders judgment among the “gods”:

2 “How long will you defend the unjust

    and show partiality to the wicked?

3 Defend the weak and the fatherless;

    uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

4 Rescue the weak and the needy;

    deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

5 “The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.

    They walk about in darkness;

    all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

6 “I said, ‘You are “gods”;

    you are all sons of the Most High.’

7 But you will die like mere mortals;

    you will fall like every other ruler.”

8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth,

    for all the nations are your inheritance.