There I was walking my heart out and feeling my soul was exhausted, too. Having hours earlier been updated by a dear Christian friend concerning Satanic worship becoming an American norm, my immediate empathy went to God. I assumed He must be up in heaven hurt and disillusioned with His earthly children. Convinced His eyesight was focused on mankind, once more, entrenched in the practice of pagan idolatry, my being was immersed in disbelief and regret that our population, more and more, was abandoning their code of Scripture ethics and God, Himself. How can our earth be marred by abandonment of our Creator, His Son who died for our redemption and Holy Spirit direction and wisdom was reverberating in my thoughts.
As I was drowning in my self declared pity party for God, His wakeup call broke through my delusion. First and foremost, God brought me from my assessment of spiritual drought to the fount of His love and mercy. God offered me answers by asking me questions. Would my God let His overwhelming feeling be pessimism for the lost or optimism for the found? Would my God be more motivated by His power to destroy the enemy or preserve the faithful? Would my God be anticipating defeat for the wayward or victory for the steadfast?
My state of mind dramatically shifted once my heart and soul pondered these questions. The downward nosedive of the world does not (and cannot) cease the upward spiral of God’s faithful children being redeemed, restored and resurrected into eternity in heaven. No longer do I imagine God to be pitied because of sinful man. Instead, I realize, with God, demonic darkness fades into the background when SONlight glows in the forefront. Don’t misinterpret me. God will, most definitely, end the current reign of evil; and His victory will emerge out of His wielding His greatest might. However, I do believe He will strike down evil not out of anger over Satan’s wicked but out of love for His faithful remnant.
“Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous. The Lord knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will remain forever; they are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance. But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish — like smoke they vanish away.” Psalm 37: 16-20 (ESV)
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 