We Will Face Unfair Treatment

Note from today’s Bible reading: Psalm 65-67; 69-70

The sixty-ninth psalm contains an appeal from David to God because of the trouble he was facing from his enemies. The psalm also pointed to Jesus and His suffering on the cross (Psalm 69:21; Mark 15:23).

In both instances – the direct and the prophetic – they suffered unjustly. David said, “Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies; what I did not steal, I then have to restore” (Psalm 69:4).

However, many people who claim to be suffering unjustly simply ignore their mistakes and wrongdoings that contributed to the situation. Yet that was not the case here. David said in the next verse, “O God, it is You who knows my folly, and my wrongs are not hidden from You” (Psalm 69:5). Nothing was hidden from God, and He knew that David was suffering, as he said, “without a cause.”

Today, Christians can expect to be treated unjustly – even persecuted (2 Timothy 3:12) – even if we do nothing to deserve it. Peter admonished the Christians to whom he wrote not to suffer “as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler”; instead, if they were going to suffer, they were to do so “as a Christian” (1 Peter 4:15-16).

So remember that we will face unfair treatment. Though disappointing, we should not allow it to catch us off guard. Instead, let us keep our trust in God and continue living in such a way that whatever suffering we endure is not deserved.