the trend of the universe

when He opens up His heart to you and shows you the darkness of the world, of what grieves His Spirit, will you be able to take it? will you be able to stand firm, despite all this evil in the world? like a thick miasma that swallows everyone, top to toe, outside to inside? and despite all this, to stand firm?

You have put this burden in my heart for months now, more strongly last night and all of this morning.. and then i turn to the news, and this is what i see. death, destruction, nature's evil toil on people, livelihoods, regardless of families, homes, institutions of security, governments, morals...

Jesus said, "My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, I have sent them into the world." - john 17:15-18

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and this is only of what can be seen.. what of all the things unseen? like lies, like evil intentions, of scheming, of plotting, of deceit, of hypocrisy, of hatred, of anger, of selfish ambition?? what has brought us from unspoilt, untainted, untouched babies in swaddling clothes to where we are today?

"We have all contributed, directly or indirectly, to this sad state of affairs. We have been to blind to see, or too timid to speak out, or too self-satisfied to desire anything better than the poor, average diet with which others appear satisfied. To put it differently, we have accepted one another's notions, copied one another's lives and made one another's experiences the model for our own. And for a generation the trend has been downward. Now we have reached a low place of sand and burnt wire-grass and, worst of all, we have made the Word of Truth conform to our experience and accepted this low plane as the very pasture of the blessed." - 'The pursuit of God' by A.W. Tozer, pg 50


But there is a way out under it!
For You have come to save.
And may men know the power that is in
Your name.
The name that devils dread.
For your path is a highway
For all who behold and come,
To see the glory that is within.

"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance and knowledge of Him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life..." - 2 corinthians 2:14-16

a friend of mine once asked me recently why i like to litter my conversations with verses from the bible.. i told him it's because it is the only Truth that we have in this world. and that, the world cannot take.