God Sees Trouble and Grief

I’m having a hard time grieving for the communities, the victims and the families of the mass shootings because, rather than allowing America to grieve over the tragedy, elected officials and the mainstream media have insisted on politicizing it. I discovered I can take comfort from the psalmist, “Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless. Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, “He won’t call me to account”? But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless. Break the arm of the wicked and evil man; call him to account for his wickedness that would not be found out” (Psalm 10:12-15 NIV).