1522) As a teacher, there are often funny things that happen in the classroom and laughter can echo throughout the room. One time, and I don’t know how it came up, I said I dislike the insides of Oreos. One girl looked straight at me and said, “What’s wrong with you?” There was a second of silence, and then we all exploded into laughter. What is wrong with me? Indeed!

Sometimes, when we see in our newsfeeds the horrible things people do, we can wonder, What’s wrong with them? Because there seems to be so much that is bad, I shy away from filling my heart and brain with all I see; it’s often too much to bear.

David felt the same way in Psalm 12. He writes that all around him, people are doing horrible things and he’s crying out to God for protection. Evidently, David is assured of this because verses 7-8 tell us God will protect us from these wicked people and things.

Here, I want to emphasize that this protection can be in the moment or permanently in eternity when God’s children will be separated from those who are not.

God will keep his word.