Psalm 97:7-9: Right Once In A While

Sometimes it is just nice to feel like you've got it right. As a follower of God, you can take a beating from folks who think you are either foolish for believing in God or foolish for believing in the wrong God. Blaise Pascal famously reasoned that it was worse to not believe at all than to believe in God and be wrong. But the author of Psalm 97 takes a different approach:

All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols—worship him, all you gods! Zion hears and rejoices and the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments, O LORD. For you, O LORD, are the Most High over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods. - Psalm 97:7-9

It says: God himself is in charge of his own reputation and, when he reveals himself, those who have long held the unpopular view of his existence and vitality will be proven right. They will rejoice, even as the villages of Judah rejoiced in this psalm. Its nice to be right once in a while. Its also nice not to have to say "I told you so" but let the knowledge come irrefutably from another direction.