June 10, 2008 - Dealing With Malicious Slander

Meditation on Psalm 7

Perhaps you may discover someone whom you have treated nicely but turn around to slander you behind your back and is planning with others to harm you. What do you do?

David was accused and pursued by Cush unjustly with the intention to turn him to King Saul. In that tragic moment, David composed this song to sing to God. He expressed his intense feeling and turned to God in prayers.

He communicated to God that he was in great danger. He proclaimed to God his own innocence. He asked for justice and God's action to vindicate the righteous.

This Psalm expressed God's wrath against those who were wicked and constantly committed wrong. What they did will boomerang to themselves.

In times like that, this is the kind of prayers a believer can straight talk to God. And we can also have the confidence like David to sing, "I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD MOST HIGH." (v.17)

God is just!