What do you do when you become for others the personification of what they fear, the image of the change that they perceive as a threat? It's not your doing, just who you are in their minds? The Psalm prays through keeping faith while being the object of scorn and attack. Meditation on Psalm 71:7-11 by Pastor Lars Hammar of Lord of Grace Lutheran Church in Marana, Arizona.
7 I have been like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.
8 My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all day long.
9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength is spent.
10 For my enemies speak concerning me, and those who watch for my life consult together.
11 They say, "Pursue and seize that person whom God has forsaken, for there is no one to deliver."
Psalms 71:7-11