Leviticus 5 & 6, Mark 10: 32-52, Psalm 37: 1-9
Psalm 37: 7-9 (ESV)
“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret
not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out
evil devices! Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it
tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for
the Lord shall inherit the land.”
I think verses 7 through 9 from
Psalm 37 is good advice for all the chaos and confusion that seems to be
happening politically today. If we believe that God is fully in charge of our
world, then we have to believe that everything that happens is a part of God’s
plan. Many Americans have seen things happening for years occurring in our nation
that are not Biblically based. We have been praying for circumstances to change,
yet it seems like the non-Biblically based things are increasing. These verses
from Psalm 37 tells us that feeling anger, wrath, and worry will lead to evil,
since it causes us to doubt God and his plan for the world. We need to fully
trust that God will bring his justice to the world, and that the evildoers will
be cut off and Biblically-based things will come back to our nation. But I know
that patience is hard because at times it does seem like the evildoers are
winning, and people of faith are losing. If we do lose faith in God, we need to
pray for him to strengthen our faith. We know that we cannot rely on ourselves
to be faithful, and we need to ask God to help us. With God, even getting over the
despair that the other side is winning is possible.
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