Hope exists for everyone. Jesus’s ministry included everyone. He helped and taught the rich and the poor, the religious elite and the social outcast, and the intelligent and the simple-minded. However, the evildoers never learned. They devour God’s people as men eat bread. Some believe, but most reject.
The Lord Jesus, David’s God, was the same past, present, and future. He gave people in David’s day a chance too. However, as David saw many still believed that God does not exist (1). Even though they have many chances to repent, they never learn (4). These same people frustrate the plans of the poor.
The poor in this psalm are those who learned and repented. They believe in God. Thus, in God they are righteous. The fools who say there is no God are out to devour them (4). The righteous are at times poor and the fools frustrate their plans (6). However, God is always present in the company of the righteous (5). The LORD is their refuge (6).
As David, I hope and pray that the salvation of Israel found in Jesus the Messiah would come to all (7). David looked to the future for the Messiah. The Messiah came and he will come again. I too look to the future for the Messiah when the LORD will restore the fortunes of his people. Hope exists for everyone. For the atheists when they repent. And for the oppressed righteous when Jesus comes again and restores their fortunes.
