I know people like this psalmist, relatives even. Pessismists who think the devil has consumed everyone and the world has gone bad when it used to be so glorious "back in my day." I saw that there was a study that concluded that bad memories fade quicker than good memoried which is why nostalgia sets in as we grow older. I find it hard to take this psalmist's melodramtic whining seriously. Whining and putting the worlds situation on God is a cop-out.
Yes, there are bad people, but I do not feel that "the faithful have disappeared" (v 1) and that "vileness is exalted among humankind" (v 8). We are imperfect, yet we are still made in God's image and we should hold eachother accountable for our roles in this creation. Whining about how awful people are only gives an excuse to give up on the world and certainly isn't what God wants!
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You can either curse the darkness or light a candle. At least that's what we teach at baptisms.
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