09/25/2024
Friend, I pray we cling to this truth today: Darkness, sin and hopelessness have been overcome. Jesus did it for me and for you. Jesus loves you and sees you. The battle you’re facing, no matter how dark it feels, isn’t hopeless.
We may not be able to see victory right now, but because of Jesus, evil is in the process of being ultimately defeated. The world as we know it, plagued with sin and pain, is not our home. The new heaven and new earth are closer than we think (Revelation 21:3-8). For now, our assignment is to follow and trust God.
That’s not easy, especially when so much of what we are facing feels incredibly unfair. But we don’t serve a do-nothing God. Even in the silence, the unknown, and the places where it looks like evil is winning, He is working. We will experience evil in this world, but even still, God reigns. There is a Savior of the world who will right all the wrongs. Even if it takes a long time — even if we don’t see it in our lifetime — victorious Jesus will have victory over the wrongs done to us and the evil committed against us. This doesn’t mean we give up. It means we’re giving God what was never ours to carry.
In the meantime, we make room for what we don’t understand … for the mystery of God. Romans 11:33-36 reminds us of this:
“Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? And who has ever given to God, that he should be repaid? For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen” (CSB).
