# 1 2019. Dev. Ps. 53: The unrighteous! Read all of Ps. 53. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw Gremar and I closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Psalm 53:1 “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.”
We start this New Year with hope but the reality of a broken world is always with us, Ps. 53 reminds us of that reality. This Psalm is the last prayer of this section of Psalms started at Ps.49. The Psalm is very much like Ps. 14. The title however is much different: “according to mahalath” the name of a tune but the Hebrew word means suffering or oppression. Further, it is also titled as a “maskil” meaning instruction or righteous understanding. The psalmist has suffered at the hands of godless men and he speaks out. Here the unrighteous are described in vivid terms: their actions, their lack of understanding, their refusal to seek God, and they do not know or do good works.
We see and we hear about the unrighteous today, in the Middle East evil actions have risen to an unbelievable level destroying whole cities and decimating people groups. Evil is at work everywhere as well as here where we live. Let us call evil for what it is, and where evil comes from; unrighteous people are controlled by Satan. We hear them say: “we love death but you love life”! They say that because they are confronted with life! The righteous have nothing to loose! How? As the Psalmist tells us: “There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is present in the company of the righteous” and “the Lord is their refuge.” Ps 14: 5,6.
God in Christ is always with us in every situation and through every trial. Truly we have everything to gain and nothing to loose! Thank you Lord Jesus.
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