Its the very opening Line in Psalm 17. Its first three words in the King James Version read: “HEAR THE RIGHT.”

Obviously this is a prayer, a plea! (The Psalm is even labeled by its Superscript “A Prayer of David.”)

“HEAR THE RIGHT, O LORD.”

I have read the Psalms repeatedly in my Christian life. Yet, somehow, I have never been as captivated by these words as I was earlier this morning.

I know God can “hear” well. After all, He is God! Omniscient, omnipotent, omni-present!

(The first recorded thing God “hears,” in Scripture, is the voice of Adam. Adam who has recently sinned. See Genesis 3:9-11.)

You might say that God heard “wrong” (or heard Adam’s “disobedience”) that day! By that I mean that God heard the voice of a man who had failed to walk in His revealed Will.

No doubt, God is hearing a lot of “wrong” in today’s world!

But David’s prayer is one of asking God to hear the “RIGHT” in a troublesome (apparently even dangerous) situation that the Palmist is facing!

My point today … GOD CAN NOT ONLY HEAR EVERY “NOISE” ON EARTH, surely so! After all, He did create our ears, sound waves, and all that!

HE CAN EVEN HEAR “UNRIGHTOUSNESS” … AND ITS GLORIOUS COUNTERPART “RIGHTEOUSNESS!”

“Hear the Right, O Lord.”

Care for Thy children in these wicked days.

Plead the cause of justice, innocence, morality!

Amen!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

I wonder if, when God trains His Ear toward America, there is now a stunning “silence” when it comes to hearing “RIGHT?”

“When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8, righteous faith!

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