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August 4, 1991
What is the meaning of life? For as long as humans have walked the earth, we have been coming up with our own answers to this vital question. In this message from Psalm 10, however, Alistair Begg implores us to see that life only makes sense if God is at the center. The psalmist reminds us that God is indeed present as the eternal sustainer of His creation, and He will call to account those who try to live their lives apart from Him.
1Why, O Lord, do you stand kfar away?
Why ldo you hide yourself in mtimes of trouble?
2In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
let them nbe caught in the schemes that they have devised.
3For the wicked oboasts of the desires of his soul,
and the one greedy for gain pcurses1 and qrenounces the Lord.
4In the pride of his face2 the wicked does not qseek him;3
all his thoughts are, r“There is no God.”
5His ways prosper at all times;
your judgments are on high, sout of his sight;
as for all his foes, he tpuffs at them.
6He usays in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
throughout all generations I vshall not meet adversity.”
7wHis mouth is filled with cursing and xdeceit and yoppression;
zunder his tongue are amischief and biniquity.
8He sits in ambush in the villages;
in chiding places he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
9he lurks in ambush like da lion in his ethicket;
he flurks that he may seize the poor;
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his gnet.
10The helpless are crushed, sink down,
and fall by his might.
11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,
he has hhidden his face, he iwill never see it.”
12jArise, O Lord; O God, klift up your hand;
lforget not the afflicted.
13Why does the wicked mrenounce God
and say in his heart, “You will not ncall to account”?
14But you do see, for you onote mischief and vexation,
that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless pcommits himself;
you have been qthe helper of the fatherless.
15rBreak the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
scall his wickedness to account till you find none.
16tThe Lord is king forever and ever;
the unations perish from his land.
17O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will vstrengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
18to wdo justice to the fatherless and xthe oppressed,
so that yman who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Copyright © 2024, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.
