We might be tempted to think that God has turned a blind eye on the world today. Things are are real mess and the world-wide rejection of God and His ways. Evil seems to be spreading.
But we read here that ‘the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth.’ We can have confidence therefore that He sees it all. As hard as it might be for our human eyes to see and our human hearts to understand God sees it all.
And it breaks His heart. This is not the way it should be. God gave man a choice and man has rejected Him. Because of sin this world is broken. Because God’s heart is broken He sent His Son to die for our sins and give us a chance to have hope in this broken old world.
As hard as it it to believe men still reject Him. In the darkness of this world God sent Light and the world rejected that Light. According to the verse above those who reject God have done foolishly and wars and fighting will be the result.
For those whose hearts a loyal to Him there is hope. Because as His eyes run to and fro over the earth He sees our need He is able to show Himself strong in this dark and broken world.
It's hard to see all this mess. The news over the last few weeks has been shocking. Politics and violence and shootings and all the rest scream out at us in our news feeds and things seem to be spinning faster and faster.
We must cling to the fact that this world is not our home. It is broken and we can’t expect it to conform to our ways and notions and choices. We can’t let it defeat us because our God is able to show Himself strong to those of us who trust in Him.
If we walk in our own strength we will lose out to this old world. But with God’s strength we can not only survive, but have victory in Him.
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