Open your mouth for the dumb [those who cannot speak for themselves], for the rights of all the unfortunate [all the unlucky ones who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time]. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and needy [those who have no standing].
I suppose there have been those in every age who have no standing before the authorities who rule over them, and have no voice to demand justice in the face of those who do not recognize their humanity.
In today's world, I would think of all the babies who haven't been born yet, but are judged "inconvenient" in some way, and so are robbed of their humanity and their right to live the life they've begun. People talk about "choice," and we do have a choice over what we do in our lives. But my rights end where your rights begin, and a mother's right of choice ends with the beginning of another person who depends on her.
This moral territory has been hijacked into the political realm, and those who recognize the humanity of our next generation are being accused of not having compassion for the mother. But it's our enemy, Satan, who comes to kill, steal, and destroy, and he hates us because God loves us.
So let us use our voices to speak out for those who have no voice or standing. Let us recognize what God's commands based on Love demand of us in all the political and moral and spiritual issues we face in our societies in our own day, today.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
