KEY SCRIPTURE: Romans 1:28 “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;”

Someone once asked; if God is such a good God why is evil so rampant? Why are there so many calamities all around us.?

God is eternally good. Anytime God relates with men, He deposits favour, blessings, and peace.  James 1:17 reads, “every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning”. According to this verse, we see that all good and perfect things come from Him. This means He is not the originator of evil and calamities: Secondly, there is no variableness, that is, He remains constant. Forever He is good. Lastly, there is no shadow of turning with Him, that is, He is dependable.

 The dominance of evil is the choice of men. John 3:19 reads ” And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil: The light is God’s goodness but men loved evil, so they chose it.

Beloved reader please understand evil is not just a state or an action. Evil is a person, a living intelligent being whose power is called darkness. He is called Satan. Revelation 12:9 reveals Him as the old serpent, who deceives all men. He is the arch-enemy of all men. 2nd Corinthians 4:4 calls Him the god of this world, who has blinded the minds of them who believe not the gospel. This is the choice of the world. The evil and calamities that prevail are His baptism on humanity. One may ask, can’t God do anything about it.? The answer is no and yes. It is no, so long as men persist in their sinful ways. 

Conversely, the answer is yes, if God would find men who would stand in the gap and pray for God’s intervention. God leased the dominion of the world into man’s hands after creation. Genesis 1:26 “And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness and let them have dominion……  over all the earth…..”. The dominion of the earth was given to man, God cannot intervene until man invites Him.

This is why Christians must intercede for the intervention of the Lord in the affairs of this world.

  CONFESSION

The world is engulfed in evil, yet God has not changed. He is eternally good. I would commit my life to intercede for the salvation of men as well as God’s intervention to curtail the evil that abounds.

THOUGHT: IT IS MAN’S CHOICE WHETHER HE HAS PEACE OR PROBLEMS.

FURTHER STUDIES.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48;”Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore, shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have been destroyed “