Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
Our world is troubled. Whether it’s more troubled than it was seventeen years ago today, or 170 years ago, or 1,700 years ago 
depends on perspective. Seventeen ago, the United States was under attack. In 1848, revolutionary waves rolled across more than fifty European countries. In 318, controversy raged about the persons of the Holy Trinity.
And yet, in Psalm 149, we are told the Lord takes delight in His people. How can that be, when it seems all we do is squabble, injure, and betray each other?
You could argue that people who behave in such unconscionable ways are not the Lord’s people. And I would argue back that if that were the case, the Lord would have no people whatsoever on this planet.
It comes down to this: we certainly are called to provide correction and guidance when we discern it’s needed. We are called to stand up and advocate for the downtrodden, those who are poor and needy in every sense of those words. But judge and condemn? That’s His job. To doubt that, to doubt His healing power, is to doubt everything.
