Psalm 12

Psalm 12
¹ Help, LORD, for no one is faithful anymore;
   those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.
We should all pray to God to help us be faithfull.Let us be established through Christ Jesus here on earth.
² Everyone lies to their neighbor;
   they flatter with their lips
   but harbor deception in their hearts.
I pray that Jesus guards  my heart and keeps me from deception. The heart is the mind the will and the emotions so I need to keep my thoughts my decisions and choices on your word Jesus.I shouldn't be making only emotional decision making but rather line my thinking up with what the word of God says about any matter so I know what the truth is and can discern the right thing to do in any situation and therefore avoid the deception and false worldly system that is so pervasive today.
 ³ May the LORD silence all flattering lips
   and every boastful tongue—
flattery does not get us everywhere!Honesty and being genuine is more important.
⁴ those who say,
   “By our tongues we will prevail;
   our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”
 ⁵ “Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan,
   I will now arise,” says the LORD.
   “I will protect them from those who malign them.” Thank God he protects and watches over us and brings restoration where there has formerly been injustice.This can give us hope when at times life seems to be unfair when it makes you wonder why some who flatter or unjustly get promoted seem to have advantage but when we look at the long term bigger picture their success is only temporary where as in the long run when we are patient for God to work in our situation and circumstances when He promotes us and establishes us no one can take that away.God brings justice to every situation,we just have to trust and wait for His timing.He sees all and knows all.
⁶ And the words of the LORD are flawless,
   like silver purified in a crucible,
   like gold refined seven times.
 ⁷ You, LORD, will keep the needy safe
   and will protect us forever from the wicked,
⁸ who freely strut about
   when what is vile is honored by the human race.
We need to make sure we are honouring and giving respect to the right things.Putting God at the top of our priority list to Honour and respect Him first and foremost and exulting Jesus. Then when we have our priorities in check then we can focus our attention on giving recognition to those persons who live according to God's principles and bring about goodness love meekness mercy and grace kindness and help to others.That is more in line with what we should give recognition to.People who do a good service in this life not superficial people who act out just to seek attention for attentions sake.To often we are focusing in our culture those who don't use morals to succeed and don't have any discernable talent.As a culture we need a paradigm shift to focus on the people who matter who can have a positive rather than negative influence.
The biblical advisement through the psalms is as relevant today as it ever was we need it more so now I think! Its a kind of warning that your results/consequences you get out of this life is based on what you think.
The old addage What you think can achieve What you believe is what you get!Its true. Some call it "The Secret" but when has this ever been a secret?God made it plain. What you put as your priority,What you think of guides your emotions and often your emotions guide you will your choices and as a result your actions. So basically if we want good results and blessings we have to Make God and His Word our priority and give it highest place.Thinking that way letting it guide our emotions making our choices based on that then we get the positive results and outcome of blessings. If we all did this more our culture would be impacted and we could use our discernment to focus on positive and get a better more blessed society.