To be honest, today's Psalm is a bit of a downer. It opens with these uplifting words:
1 Help, LORD, for no one is faithful anymore;
those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.
2 Everyone lies to their neighbor;
they flatter with their lips
but harbor deception in their hearts.
The thing is, experience proves it to be true. In fact, if I'm completely honest, it includes me as well. Thank God for His grace!
Why is this Psalm linked to this particular passage in Genesis for today's reading? Check out Noah. Here he is, the one man in all the earth that found favor in the eyes of God...enough so that he and his family are the absolute only humans that survive the devastation that God brings. And yet after all he goes through we find him naked and in a drunken stupor in 9:20-23. I'm not completely sure what's going on here. I'm pretty sure there's stuff going on between the lines of scripture here that I'm missing...but it's bad, whatever it is. The point, to me, is that Psalm 12 is proved to be true. Even righteous Noah is included in the opening words of Psalm 12. I think Paul says it this way in Romans 3:23 - "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God".
It's hard to leave this thought hanging because it's such a downer...but I know what's coming - forgiveness through Christ. But I think it may be a good reminder that I don't deserve it...at all.
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