For too many, the evil events of the recent past cause us to ponder on the timetable of the Lord. We know that God is just in all His actions. He has decreed: “But let judgement run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.” (Amos 5:24) Where is justice when ten people are randomly shot while shopping at a supermarket? It was the evil of that kind of event that prompted the Psalmist to ask: “Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?” (Psalm 94:3,4) Know this, dear ones, the Creator of the universe is aware of all that transpires in the earth realm. Hear what He says: “For the Lord will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance. But judgement (justice) shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright. in heart shall follow it.” Although there are many evil deeds perpetrated on the innocent, there is a God! The writer of Psalm 94 ends with: “But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. And He shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.”
To the unbeliever, it might appear that this world is spiraling out of control, but we (believers) know that is not true. We know that: “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9).
Pastor J. Amos Jones
