What???

     We had a discussion of the 72^nd Psalm in Sunday school this morning. Sometimes those who writre the commentaries in our Sunday School lessons so completely miss the mark that I wonder if the writers understand what Christianity is all about.  

     This morning in our discussion of Psalm 72,  Beth Ludlum said that if heads of state want us to revere them, to “bow down before” them they should put an end to poverty, take care of the poor, have pity on the weak and needy.

     First of all, that’s our job.  We’re not to expect the government to do our job.  We are to take care of our neighbors.  From the story of the Tower of Babel right through the New Testament we should be aware that God’s message is that heads of state who have the power to do good always end up doing evil.  We cannot expect them to do our job.

      And is she suggesting that if they took care of the poor, she would bow down to them.  "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me."