Psalm 40:13-17 “Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD. Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt. Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, ‘Aha! Aha!’ Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, ‘Let the LORD be exalted!’ But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.”

Mockers continue to be a problem, and it will only get worse:

2 Peter 3:3-4 “knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts and saying, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.’”

Some make fun of our faith. Some rejoice when we fall. Most don’t understand repentance and restoration. We don’t live for them! We live for God, and it’s okay to ask God for vindication. After all, when we are vindicated, He is vindicated!

For additional worship: I Need Thee Every Hour | Reawaken Hymns