Our Hope In An Evil-Filled World

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When I look around the world I’m constantly shocked at the evil that is abounding in every place. I look within and see my own thoughts and the sin that I have and I’m ashamed.

It can be so heartbreaking to just think of all the evil that is being unleashed all over the world. But at the same time I thought of all this, I was reminded that God sees even more than I. He sees every thought, He knows every evil intention and action. Nothing is hidden from Him (Proverbs 15:3).

Thinking of the latest shooting where people lost their lives and persons carried out horrendous actions, a missing girl whose parents were murdered, a little girl that is caught between abusive family members. It can be so overwhelming. But God sees all this.

I can’t do anything. But I can call out to my Father in heaven who sees the evil and the good. He doesn’t sit idly by. His anger is aroused against the evil that is being perpetrated in the world (Romans 1:18). All of it. He is able to see, to know every thought before it is in the mind of man. This made me think of a couple verses:

Psalm 34:18
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Psalm 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

These people. The two little girls, He is near to them. The grieving survivors of the shooting, He doesn’t turn a blind eye to their trouble.

I turn to the one Who created them to help them. I can’t do anything. I can’t know the situation. I can’t know their thoughts. I can’t know the thoughts of those that hurt them. But God does.

Isaiah 61:1-2
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners; to proclaim the favorable year of the LORD and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn.

Isaiah here is prophesying of the coming Savior, our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. He is our hope. He binds up the brokenhearted, He comforts those that are weeping, and He proclaims the day of vengeance of our God.

To all those that are suffering. To those that are causing others to suffer. I don’t know the thoughts of either. God does.

The Father sent His only Son to proclaim liberty and freedom to those that would trust in Him (Jesus). Jesus also told of the coming judgment and the need for repentance. No matter what we’ve done, we have all sinned and are all sinners in God's sight. (Remember, He knows and sees everything we do and think.)

So listen to Jesus and repent. We all will die eventually; the perpetrator and the one sinned against. We will all one day, no matter how we die, meet our God face to face. Our only hope of life is Jesus.

I’ll leave you with a word from Luke 13:

Luke 13:1-5 NASB
Now on the same occasion there were some present who reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. And Jesus said to them, "Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."

Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."


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