Psalm 94 - An Encouragement for Worriers
Do you worry?
Do you see injustice around you?
Does it ever look like the patients have taken over the asylum?
The Psalmist would have you not worry. But this encouragement is not the kind that people generally look for. To summarize:
 15 Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,
      and all the upright in heart will follow it.
Do you see why we are to take heart?
It is not because no one will get hurt.
It is not because everything is going to be fine.
It is because, whatever happens, God’s justice will prevail. He appears absent for a time, letting mankind have his way with his own destiny, and that doesn’t generally work out well. Give a man access to another man’s wealth, tell him “it’s all right”, “no one will get hurt”, “you won’t be punished”, and he will generally help himself to it… until there’s no more wealth to help himself to. And then what has he accomplished?
Nothing but his own despair… but no only his own, but others, too! And yours. So why shouldn’t you despair? Because…
  15 Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,
      and all the upright in heart will follow it.
That is why.Â
God doesn’t see our world as our final place. This isn’t where we will find ultimate peace. God’s justice isn’t about whether things happen to begin with, but about what happens afterward. Justice is not about whether hard-working americans get their money taken from them, or whether fatherless children get medical care with that money. It is about God’s response, the “therefore” that follows it all. And upon what is that “therefore” founded? The is righteousness… God’s righteousness to be specific.
God never tells us to take heart that bad thing won’t happen, but that justice will be done in response to bad things happening. That’s not how we think, but it is how God thinks, and wants us to think. How do we respond to things? Are we angry? Scared? That’s not from God. God wants us sure and confident. And wants us so no matter what is happening… for some ultimate purpose in Heaven when we I die I’d say. He’s shaping us for something, though I cannot tell you what it is. I know a little about it from scripture. We will be worshipping God in love and truth, and we will each have our own place there. But even that is not God’s justice per se, but after it. We are to take heart in God’s judgement, perhaps not the judgement event itself, but in the creator who will conduct it. Ultimately, God wants our confidence in Him. If you have that, then you have everything.