Has Anything Changed?

Everyone lies to his neighbor;
      their flattering lips speak with deception.

Psalm 12:2 (NIV)

David is lamenting to God in Psalm 12. As I read verse 2, I thought about how much that sounds like the world today. Read the newspaper or watch the news. Read some of the news/political/gossip sites on the internet. How much of it is about people being deceptive? How much of it is people saying "you need to be tolerant" while they are really thinking "I don't like what you think and I hate you because of it"? Too much if you ask me. I take comfort in what David took comfort in.

And the words of the LORD are flawless,
      like silver refined in a furnace of clay,
      purified seven times.

Psalm 12:6 (NIV)