God's vindication

Let my vindication come from Your presence; Let Your eyes look on the things that are upright. - Psalm 17v2

It is natural for us to seek vindication for what we do and say and even who we are. We like to know that we have a purpose and a reason for being here. Sometimes, when things are going slow or difficult we want some kind of vindication to show us that there is a purpose for what we are doing and that we are not just wasting time and taking up space.

We may seek vindication from others. We may seek vindication from results. We may seek vindication from ourselves. But we always want vindication.

I am not so sure that is wrong. We do need to have something to keep us motivated. We do need to know that there is a purpose for our being here. If we don’t have that, then we will just give up. There does need to be a reason for going on.

I think that the difficulty comes, not so much when we are facing great opposition or persecution, but when it seems like nothing is really happening or just slipping away. We can wonder, ‘What is the use? Why bother?’

The psalmist has an answer here – ‘Let my vindication come from Your presence.’ We need to learn that our vindication need not be circumstantial, popular, or even personal. What we need to learn to depend on is holy vindication.

Our vindication needs to come from knowing that God is with us. If that is true and we are faithfully serving and following Him than that is all the vindication we really need.

May be learn to be content with God’s holy vindication.