I was considering all the issues that we currently face, mostly man-made problems caused by out of control governments acting in evil ways against the best interests of the people who elected them. I was contemplating how money corrupts and, how it appears, nobody seems to be immune from its corrosive effects. Everywhere I look and see a conflict of interest, there also I see corruption.
Then my thoughts turn, as they invariably do, back to the Lord, my Saviour. Sitting here, far from a large city where it seems peaceful, though it really only seems that way, recognising that this apparent peace is only paper-thin, merely a delicate façade, just like all of our man-made institutions, our social structures, economic structures, electronic systems and so on, all just hyper-thin, delicate structures, so carefully constructed, so easily destroyed.
It seems as if there is no safety anywhere, anymore. Despite the outer peacefulness of this location, there is a subtle, subversive turmoil, raging under the gentle waves of the breeze, under the quiet, weather-beaten skin of so many all around me, so many I rarely see but who are all still there, troubled within like stormy waters, fearful of what is coming upon the earth. This is not so much a storm among the nations as it is a storm among minds and hearts and, from that, nobody can escape.
This is why it is critical now, perhaps more than ever before, that we have the ark of the covenant in our hearts, since safety is found only in that ark wherein is found the Word of God, and that Word has a name, Yeshua.
Safety is a person and His name is Yeshua, the only-begotten son of the Eternal God and the first-born of the dead. In Him, and only Him, do I find my peace.
