It has been kind of a slow day. I've just been working on homework and trying to get things together for the week. In the midst of all that, I got to thinking. It is nothing short of amazing what will happen in your mind when you simply devote it to thinking. So I decided to write down what I was thinking about. After playing drums for the Women's Rally last night, I had a chance to sit down with two awesome guys, Taylor Welch and Jimmy Grove. We just got to talking about life and different things and we started discussing how evil and twisted our world has become. It has certainly not taken long for the world we live in to become perverse and full of outrageous atrocities. Every once in a while, we see a glimmer of compassion and true heart, such as in the recent Haiti incident. However, for as many compassionate and beautiful people as there are in the world, it seems there are more evil, self-serving, and malignant people. Every day is a constant struggle between the heights of good and the depths of injustice.
When Jesus addresses the disciples in John 16:33, He starts off by saying that if you live long enough in this world, you will experience troubles. Not a very light, encouraging thing for him to say. If the verse ended there, we would all walk away from our Bibles feeling somewhat betrayed by our beliefs, but it doesn't end there. Jesus continues on to say that although we are sure to face horrible things, we can take heart in the fact that He has overcome all the world. No matter what we are currently walking through, Christ has overcome it. Whatever evil things we see, Christ has overcome them. God is above all things and at work in all things. There is nothing that this world can produce that He has not already seen, encountered and triumphed over. End of story.
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