The Lord judges the peoples; vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity. Psalms 7:8 (CSB)
There are two reasons we don’t call upon God. We either don’t believe that he can or we don’t believe we deserve it. Both responses prevent God from working in our lives.
David believed that God was capable. Most of us do. We call him all-mighty, all-powerful and able to move mountains. If those things are true, our problem, like David’s, is getting God to act. In Psalms 7, we hear David begging God to act on his behalf. “Do it,” he says, “according to my righteousness and integrity.” I don’t know about you, but I stop short of that one.
Those words make me shudder. I am all too familiar with my levels of righteousness and integrity. I know what I deserve. Why would God ever vindicate me?
The only answer I have is that I don’t know. Paul gets it right, “Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.” Romans 3:24 (NLT)
God, vindicate me.