A Sense of God's Justice | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | September 6, 2025

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🗓️ 6 September 2025

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0:00.0	May this be the Lord's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me. Psalm 109, verse 20.
0:11.8	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. A sense of God's justice was written by Leslie Coe and read by West Ward.
0:23.4	Psalm 109 verses 6 through 9 and 26 through 29.
0:29.8	Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy.
0:33.5	Let an accuser stand at his right hand.
0:36.8	When he is tried, let him be found guilty. And may his prayers
0:41.3	condemn him. May his days be few. May another take his place of leadership. May his children be
0:48.9	fatherless and his wife a widow. Now verses 26 through 29. Help me, Lord my God, save me according to your
0:59.9	unfailing love. Let them know that it is your hand, that you, Lord, have done it. While they curse,
1:08.2	may you bless. May those who attack me be put to shame.
1:12.7	But may your servant rejoice.
1:15.5	May my accusers be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
1:25.4	A Sense of God's Justice, written by Leslie Coe.
1:30.5	The news was horrific.
1:33.2	A live-in foreign domestic helper had been so ill-treated by the family she worked for that she died.
1:40.3	The employers were eventually jailed, but I felt it wasn't enough.
1:45.9	They should have suffered the same horrors they put that poor girl through, I thought,
1:50.7	and then put to death.
1:52.5	Then I wondered if my anger had crossed the line.
1:56.2	Was I wrong to think such things?
1:58.9	Reading Psalm 109 gave me an insight into our natural sense of justice.
2:05.4	David, for one, wrestled with anger toward those who wronged the poor and needy. May his days be
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