PSALM 129 The Family of God

According to psalms 127 and 128,  your wife and children
are your community;-
"your children like olive shoots around your table"
"Your children are a heritage from the Lord"
The future prosperity of your community is related
to your children's children.
Yet this family of God is afflicted.
Since biblical times the community of God's people
has been persecuted.
Being  against "family values" the enemies of Zion
try to include adultery, gambling, binge drinking
money lending, pornography, prostitution,
abortion and homosexuality, human trafficking ,
drug dealing, extortion and perversion
 as part of the acceptable norm of society.
What has changed over the centuries ?
The enemies of the children of God make the innocent
children of the family of God their cowardly target
for violence, injustice and sin.

It would be better for him to have a great millstone 
fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the
depth of the sea.                                                      (Matt 18:6)

Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth.
let Israel now say
Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth.
Yet they have not prevailed against me.             Psalm 129:1-2 ESV