- From Psalm 91
ISIS.
Ebola.
Terrorism.
Random violence.
AIDS.
Measles.
Violent crime.
Drought.
As I read through Psalm 91, I jotted down some modern manifestations of the bad things listed by the Psalmist.
Or, you could just go read a newspaper. Or worse yet, look at Facebook.
The same things have caused fear in the hearts of humans, for millennia. Cain killed his brother Abel, and that was the start of it.
Or was it?
No, it actually started when Adam disobeyed God, and set the universe out of balance.
Is God's ego really that fragile? No . . . not at all. But He created everything and made the rules. He said: "Just stick with me, and this will go well." But we kept wandering off. We kept thinking we knew better than God.
How much better things could have been . . .
But in the Psalms, as these horrors are listed out, there is one simple solution to it.
Just stay in God's shadow. Stay hidden from the evil. Let Him protect you.
Not the government. Not politicians. Not partisans. Not your hundred friends that "like" your inflammatory posts within five minutes (as opposed to the thousands that are insulted by it, that never respond . . . publicly).
This is a call-out to Christians, to believers, to evangelicals, Conservatives and Christian Liberals. Do you need a reason to band together? How about this:
You should have faith to believe that God really is in control, and that He writes the final chapter. You can give up and let go of your temptation to let partisanship divide you.
In the end, nobody's going to care about political parties if the list of bad things starts happening to us. We'll wind up together in God's shadow, where there are far more important things than what "45" said last night, or what group showed up to counter-protest an extremist group.
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