I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Psalms 120-135.

Today’s first psalm is so appropriate for today.  The psalmist cries out to God to be rescued from liars and deceitful people.  Certainly today many of our social problems are the result of people telling lies to advance their agenda, and when they do not lie they deceptively tell the truth by leaving out the parts which do not support the ideas they want you to believe.  In these times, who can we trust?  We can trust God.  He will watch over us and keep us from stumbling.  He neither slumbers nor sleeps.  God will watch over us as we come and as we go.   So, let us determine to go into His presence and keep our eyes upon Him.  No matter what goes on around us, let us keep our eyes focused on God for Him to signal to us what we should do.

The psalmist reminds us why we must do the above.  Because no matter how good our intentions, nothing we do will succeed unless God takes part in making it happen.  Unless God is on our side all of our efforts will be wasted.  This should also give us hope as we witness people advancing their plans with lies and deceit: God does not support the plans of those who lie and deceive.