In Psalms, chapter ten, verse two, the psalmist grieves over the arrogant attitude of the cruel and wicked people and their apparent success, as in verses three through eleven. He prays that God will overthrow the corrupt, help the helpless, and reign as king forever so that sin and terror be abolished from the earth, as in verses twelve through eighteen. While New Testament believers must always be vitally concerned about the salvation of the wicked, they must also understand that sin and cruelty will not eliminated nor will righteousness fully reign until Christ returns to destroy all evil, as in Revelation nineteen through chapter twenty, verse ten. We must pray that God will soon abolish all evil so that Christ will have His crown and that sin and sorrow will cease on earth, as in Revelation nineteen through twenty-two.
Today, believers wonder when this ungodly evil activity is running rampant against the poor: where is God in all this? The answer is God is right there. That is why verse one of this chapter opens up with the two questions, “Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?” Deuteronomy thirty-one, verse eight says, “And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.”
Many Christians expect when trouble appears, they will be able to vanish from it. Jesus knows when to come and certain things we may have to go through. In Luke four, verse twenty-nine, Jesus had something happen with Him and the people. “And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.” This attempt came after Jesus was in Nazareth, speaking in the synagogue where He grew up: You figure they would accept Him there with what He had to say, but not so.