Psalm 94 - Anxiety was great

Psalm 94 - Anxiety was great

Read: Psalm 94 vs 1-23

When I left school I went to university and for four years I studied law. One of the opportunities I got during that time was to meet a number of people who were judges. On one occasion during a visit to London I remember briefly meeting ‘the Lord Chancellor’. His job was to be the most senior judge in the country, the judge over all judges.

The word ‘judge’, and the word ‘judgment’ can be words that we look on negatively. ‘Don’t judge me!’ someone will say if they feel that someone else is commenting on the things they are doing or the choices that they are making. However the role of a judge is actually a much more positive thing. A judge is there to ensure that people get justice. If no-one has the role of judging others then the strongest and biggest and richest people will get their own way, and the weakest and smallest and poorest will simply be walked over and exploitd time after time.

In the Bible one of the names given to God is the name of being a judge. As early as the book of Genesis we find Abraham pleading with God to do the right thing in a particular situation and he prays ‘Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?’ (Genesis 18:25). God is the Judge of all the earth, He is the Judge over all judges; and He loves justice (Psalm 11:7) and He loves fairness (Psalm 99:4).

Psalm 94 is a Psalm that calls out to God as the ‘Judge of all the earth’ (vs2). Imagine someone watching as terrible injustices are carried out, innocent people maybe being killed, or wealthy people oppressing the helpless, rules being broken and people suffering, and someone cries out ‘Where are the judges!’ This is the cry of Psalm 94 ‘How long, LORD … will the wicked be jubilant?’ (vs 3) The widow and the foreigner are put to death, the fatherless are murdered, and the innocent are condemned to death. Does the LORD not see, does the great God of the Bible take no notice? (vs 7)

There can be much in the world around us to trouble us and cause us distress (vs 19). Psalm 94 tells us that there is a Judge. He hears, He sees (vs 9), and He will one day ensure that justice is done (vs 23).

Prayer: Lord You are the Judge of all the earth. When I see injustice being done and the weak suffering, help me to place my hope in You. O Lord see! O Lord hear! O LORD may Your fairness and Your justice be done in all the earth. Amen.