Psalm 146

Psalm 146: Praise the Lord! I will praise God while I live!

3. Do not trust in princes (governors, presidents), in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
(So appropriate to our time, but any time really! So prophetic. We do not trust in Obama or Bush or Perry or the next great hope. We trust in God alone. From him alone can come salvation.)

4. His spirit departs (the mortal man), he returns to the earth, in that very day his thoughts perish.
(I think of myself here, all my blogs, all my ideas. When I am gone these things will not be remembered, they are hardly known now. I hope I will be remembered fondly by those who survive me. But even they will be gone soon enough.
I think now of veterans of WWII. They are mostly gone. No one is here to tell us the horrors of a "just" war. When I was young it was big news when the last Civil War veterans were dying. They were able to tell of the even worse horrors of civil war. We have no real consciousness of that anymore. It is only dry as dust history to most of us now.)

5. How blessed is he whose help is in the God of Jacob! Whose hope is in the Lord God.
(It goes on to describe the nature of a savior. He gives justice, gives food to the hungry, sets prisoners free, opens the eyes of the blind, raises those who are bowed, protects the stranger, supports orphans and widows, thwarts the way of the wicked.)

10. God will reign forever, to all generations. Praise the Lord!
(Unlike me, God is forever. He is actively seeking to work in the world, actively seeking those who will follow him and do as he does. Let us be in that number.)

With the health bill passing we are seeing more of the poor oppressing the rich in this country. This is a colossal attempt to shift wealth from the rich to the poor. I do not think this is what good would call justice.

I hope it does not totally ruin our economy. As dad would say we are working to "kill the goose that laid the golden eggs." Those so called "evil rich" are those who create wealth and jobs and it does trickle down. Without the encouragement needed to allow these people to create wealth we may be in for a horrible economic contraction.