Psalm 68

It took about 5 minutes for me to read this psalm of David. Verses 5 and 6 caught my attention. David list four groups of people who were outcast and forgotten in his day, as well as mine. Orphans, widows, the homeless, and prisoners. I know that I have been guilty of generalizing the circumstances that has found each person in each circumstance. But that is an unrealistic assessment on my part. The story for each orphan is unique. The loss of each husband or every widow is told in a myrad of stories. How one person ends up homeless is quite different from others, and then there are the prisoners; locked up where they belong. God is always on the side of the forsaken, the marginialized, and those cast aside by their culture. We need to allow God to give us his heart as we deal with each one of these forgotten people groups.
Stuart