Good morning,
When
God wrote the Bible, his love letter to his creation, he wrote it with
all of time in mind. God created a perfect world, with people made in
his own image, only to have us try to grab his world for our own use.
God gave us guidelines to keep us walking close to him, and we made our
own set of rules to keep him as far away from us as possible. This has
led to a series of life cycles that begin with God’s blessing and end
with with the judgement of God. Both the Old and New Testaments clearly
lay out God’s commitment to bless those who love and trust him and his
promise to defeat and destroy those who rebel against him. It’s clear
to me that for those of us who now know God and trust his Word, that the
cycle of blessing and punishment is rapidly bringing on God’s anger
against a world that has almost uniformly turned against their creator.
Now when we read the Bible we need to be very aware of the difference
that God makes in his treatment of those who love him and those who hate
him. Places like Psalm 91 give us important guidelines for what to
expect in our day by day approach to life.
God makes it clear in
Psalm 91 that those of us who have a faith based relationship with the
Most High, the Almighty God, have his promise that he will be for us a
refuge, a place of safety. He is the one who has the power and
authority to make promises that he will keep. God’s genuine children
will always have God’s powerful protection in the face of the most
overwhelming judgment designed to destroy God’s rebellious enemies. He
promises that even if the people around us are dying by the thousands,
these evils will not touch us. Does this mean that genuine Christians
won’t be injured or die as the judgments unfold? I don’t think that is
what he is telling us here. I think that what God is telling us here is
that, what for God’s enemies will be a disaster, will be for us a time
of walking with God in peace. It may also be a part of God’s plan to be
called into his peace and presence for eternity. What God wants us to
see, in times like these, is what he does to those who insist on
rejecting his love and salvation and demand the right to live without
consequences for their rebellion. May God help us to have eyes to see
and a heart to understand what God is doing while we watch him work.
Psalm 91:1
Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the
shadow of the Almighty.
2 This I declare about the LORD: He alone is my
refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him.
7 Though
a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you,
these evils will not touch you.
8 Just open your eyes, and see how the
wicked are punished.
Roy Wisner
