Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong...
Habakkuk 1:13
God permits all sorts
of awful things to happen... things He doesn't approve of. God allows
others to do what He would never do. At the same time, He hates evil.
Please don't think that God sits back and nods appreciatively at the
peddling of drugs to ninth graders. He's not the one who fired the ovens
of Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps. He does not smile when doctors
slip up leaving children with crippling defects, or high school
linebackers crush the neck of the opposing team's quarterback. He hates
these things.
God is truly grieved
over evil. He is grieved at how we've ruined the world and abused each
other. This grief is partly why He gave the Ten Commandments: don't
murder, He says -- I hate unjust killing. Don't commit adultery -- I
despise seeing families ripped apart. Don't steal -- society will
crumble if you do. God cannot tolerate wrong...
This is why He sent
Jesus to be born into our dark world. From the day of His birth, the
forces of darkness began plotting against the Babe in the manger. Why?
Because the adversary and his wicked hoards knew that this was the Child
who would ultimately crush Satan and bring an end to wickedness in this
world. God is so grieved over evil, that He sent His only Son to die in
order that righteousness and peace, truth and love would prevail... in
order that we might escape the clutches of hell and be welcomed into
heaven. God permits what He hates to accomplish that which He loves.
Celebrate the defeat
of darkness by singing this verse today from the Christmas carol, "Joy
to the World": No more let sin or sorrow reign, nor thorns infest the
ground; He comes to make His blessings known far as the curse is found!
God rest ye merry
gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, remember Christ our Savior was born
on Christmas Day: to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone
astray, O tidings of comfort and joy!
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