But me, I'm not giving up.
I'm sticking around to see what God will do.
I'm waiting for God to make things right.
I'm counting on God to listen to me. Micah 7:7
He thinks God has dumped him, he's sure that God is indifferent to his plight.
Time to get up, God--get moving.
The luckless think they're Godforsaken.
They wonder why the wicked scorn God and get away with it.
Why the wicked are so cocksure they'll never come up for audit.
But you know all about it--the contempt, the abuse.
I dare to believe that the luckless will get lucky someday in you.
You won't let them down: orphans won't be orphans forever.
Break the wicked right arms, break all the evil left arms.
Search and destroy every sign of crime.
God's grace and order wins; godlessness loses.
The victim's faint pulse picks up;
the hearts of the hopeless pump red blood as you put your ear to their lips.
Orphans get parents, the homeless get homes
The reign of terror is over, the rule of the gang lords is ended.
Psalm 10: 11 - 18 The Message
He has never let you down,
never looked the other way when you were being kicked around.
He has never wandered off to do his own thing;
he has been right there, listening.
. . .
From the four corners of the earth people are coming to their senses
are running back to God.
Long-lost families are falling on their faces before him.
God has taken charge; from now on he has the last word.
All the power-mongers are before him --- worshipping!
All the poor and powerless, too --- worshipping!
Along with those who never got it together --- worshipping!
Our children and their children will get in on this
As the word is passed along from parent to child.
Babies not yet conceived will hear the good news--
that God does what he says.
parts of Psalm 22 The Message
2 comments:
I really like the way those passages are worded in The Message! I know it is hard, and we'll miss him, but you guys changed his life if so many ways -- ways that may not be evident for a really long time! Thanks for sharing your love with him, and him with us!
Jessica, I'm so sorry that you have to say goodbye again. I got all choked up reading your passages. I wish you peace as you navigated through these times.
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