FRIDAY, 11 JULY, 2025.
TEXT: PSALM 12:1-8
TOPIC: A DISTRESS CALL
The Psalmist opens with a 119 distress call: “Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race. Everyone lies to their neighbours….”. Psalm 12 expresses what it is like to live in a Christian organisation where the foundations have been destroyed. It describes a situation very close to what obtains in African churches today, where there is a scarcity of godly and faithful models and leaders whose words can be trusted.
Isaiah also made that emergency call when he said, “The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away….” (Isaiah 57:1-2). During the formative years of African churches, it’s leaders who were graduates of the vernacular Bible training schools are now gone. We are now under the sophisticated leadership of seasoned theologians. Does this call for celebration?
QUESTION
Don’t you think it is time to dial God’s emergency number?
PRAYER
Help, Lord, help, Lord, help, Lord!
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