It's good to get out occasionally to see what is going on, and what I saw was a prom at the hotel where I was staying. Girls in their prom dresses were ostentatiously necking with other girls, and boys in their tuxedoes were cuddling with other boys all over the hotel, often with an audience of their classmates to cheer them on. Without a living faith in God, without a commitment to praise him by submitting to his laws, the wealth of our society is no blessing. It's a trap. It's an opportunity to use the material prosperity that we have inherited from another, more faithful age to make a mockery of our God-given humanity and to reduce ourselves to sideshow freaks.
Sin becomes a fashion statement, and death is praised by our self-destruction.
The opposite of this horrible scene, however, isn't a crusade against stupid children, but a refusal to become one. Lives that blatantly love God will overcome the evil of lives that blatantly love sin, vice, and death. That is God's promise in today's Psalm, when he tells us to make the voice of his praise to be heard. He holds our souls in life and suffers not our feet to slip. We are not better than other sinners in ourselves, but in Jesus Christ's redemption of our lives we are made the companions of the Living God.