We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:19-21.

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23.

Just as Psalm 10 felt too close to home yesterday in describing the awful in the world of men, so this one, Psalm 11, brings home to our hearts that no matter the confusion and harm in our world – be it in wrong teachings in our places of worship, our schools, our nations or other nations – our Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit – is Sovereign and He is here and in control in ways we cannot see or fathom. We can find comfort in Scripture when it is the Holy Spirit that guides us to understand in ways our private interpretations never will. David asks, When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? v. 3. Can we not relate to that question today? For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; the upright will see his face. v. 7. Can you imagine how God sees our injustices? David goes on to write what awaits the wicked and it isn’t pretty…fiery coals, burning sulfur, scorching wind…v. 6. Do the wicked not bring that on themselves? 

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Do the people bringing about holocausts in any age not suffer violence as well? Their own evil destroys them. I remember reading about Corrie Ten Boom and in looking her up, one of her sayings…Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. She and her family were taken to a concentration camp in World War II when they were turned in by their neighbors for helping hide their Jewish friends. She said, “There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.” She didn’t learn that truth right away. That took going through the horrors of the holocaust. She experienced for herself her own words of God’s love for us in forgiving others that she was striving to help others understand, when at a conference many years later. One of the cruelest prison guards approached her and asked for her forgiveness. Her family died in that prison camp. She recognized him immediately all those years later, and all the horrible memories rushed back. He held out his hand. She had to struggle to submit to God’s will for her. And when she took his hand in hers, knowing she was forgiving him – she felt God’s love connecting her to Him and to that guard. It traveled all the way up their clasped arms and into her heart and probably into the heart of the guard. In a world of uncertainty where no foundations remain, God’s love is our safe place because God alone is our foundation. Always. It matters not whether we know that truth now. The truth of His love is not dependent upon our accepting it as truth. Thank God for that! His love is that Light shining in the dark places of our hearts bringing us to our safe place in Him. We are wounded. His Love will heal us.