After reading a horrifying and heart-wrenching headline about a woman and her small child being gunned down, (I didn’t even want to read the rest of the story) my heart flirted with the question “Why do You not stop such things as this, Lord.” There is no answer that will completely satisfy our human craving for a full explanation, but this helped me: If you went after all evil, Lord (and if you were going to execute perfect justice upon earth’s inhabitants) who would stand a chance? That is the question being raised in Psalm 130:3.
I don’t need to read a newspaper or watch television to see the evil in the world, all I need to do is spend a small amount of time looking at my own heart and it leads me to praise the grace and forbearance of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is for the time being mercifully calling all men and women to Himself and who will one day make all things new.
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