God brought order on the earth out of chaos. Genesis 1:2 says, “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” John 1:1-5 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shined in darkness; and the darkness did not comprehend it.” Herein, God, the Holy Spirit, and the Word, Christ bringing light and order. Where is this light today?
When we look at events like what happened in Israel, many ask where is God in all this? Where is the light today? Just as in the Garden of Eden, God not only made a wonderful place for his creation, but also gave Adam and Eve the freedom to make their own choices. This holds true today. We each have the freedom to choose. Evil crept into the Garden and used crafty and vain words to deceive Adam and Eve into sin. There were great consequences. Adam and Eve chose to believe the serpent rather than God. They were removed from the Garden. They became truly mortal. Their first-born was a murderer. Their life became difficult because of the choice they had made.
Most reasonable people can see the evil done to Israel. They can see the consequences of giving large sums of money to evil people in an attempt to bribe them to become good. For humanitarian purposes, they say. But inhumanity is the consequence. Live side by side in peace, they say, but evil intent cancels the intention. These are consequences of choices. But there is something far deeper that has occurred over the decades of our lives. And that is the choices we as humankind have made, in the leaders we have chosen or accepted, that have received the vain and crafty words of satan into their hearts, and in turn, abandoned the wisdom, peace and order of the Holy Spirit. Thus, the consequences of not only choosing leadership that was evil or susceptible to evil results in an environment of chaos.
Think for a moment how Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George W Bush and Joe Biden have condemned the acts of Hamas, but they were responsible for building these terrorists up through finances and political pressure. This double-mindedness causes the chaos before us. Moreover, years and years of not holding accountability to the Lord or being led by the Holy Spirit in choosing leaders has fomented an end result of chaos within God’s creation, with horrific consequences. Let us see this example and be moved to get our souls right with the Lord; to yield to the Holy Spirit; to boldly choose the will of God over the vain and crafty words of satan; to choose light over darkness; to begin the courageous journey of restoration of the Lord’s will in our lives, communities, states, and nation. It’s a choice between chaos and the Holy Spirt.
