The Heart's Cry: Psalm 26

Psalm 26

"I do not sit with the worthless,
nor do I consort with hypocrites;
I hate the company of evildoers,
and will not sit with the wicked."

I wonder what David would have thought about Jesus, a man who hung out with "the worthless" "hypocrites" "evildoers" and "the wicked" according to the cultural and religious thought of his day.

What would David have thought about Jesus hanging out with said people so often that people claimed that Jesus was a glutton and a drunkard?

What would David have thought about Jesus speaking to non-Jewish women?

What would he have thought about Jesus touching the lame, the blind, the bleeding?

What would he have thought about Jesus allowing the little children to come to him?

I wonder how the beatitudes would have played in David's ears?

I wonder how loving your enemy, doing good to those who harm you, and praying for those who persecute you would have reverberated?

How would that have changed the tenor of the Psalms? Would it have?

I guess the better question is does it change the tenor of our prayers and songs? Does it change the way we treat those around us? Are the hurting taken care of, or left on the margins? Are the widows and orphans housed? Are the outcasts embraced? Are the people who need Jesus the most shown Jesus's love through Jesus's followers?

That's probably enough questions for one day, so I'm not going to ask you one at the end. Instead I will say a little prayer.

Holy God, forgive us for saying we follow you and forgetting everything you had to say. Forgive us for leaving out those you called us to include. Forgive us for letting down our responsibilities and picking up our trivialities. And above all forgive us for being blessed and keeping the blessing to ourselves. Amen and amen.