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Topic: HOW LONG, O LORD?
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From: Bayo Afolaranmi <spiritualdigest@yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 28 11:01AM -0800
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/christlife/msg/c6846876ccc212f9
Dearly Beloved,
The incessant
incidents of bomb blasts in Nigeria in recent time claiming lives of hundreds
of people and the seemingly helplessness of the Nigerian government to curb the
situation while the faceless wicked people are having a field day in
perpetrating their evils made me to go into my archive and bring out the
message below first posted on July 17, 2005:
HOW LONG, O LORD?
"How long
will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked be jubilant? Who will rise up
for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against
evildoers?" (Psalm 94:3, 16 NIV).
I was chatting
online with one of my spiritual fathers when he who resides in London told me
the news of the series of bomb attacks by some terrorists. I quickly visited
some news websites to get the details of what befell the city of London, nay
the whole world and discovered there the havoc these heartless people have done
again.
The September 11
attack in the US and another attack on a moving train in Madrid, Spain quickly
came to mind as I was reading the news. To add insult to injury, these callous
people still promised to do more harms to other cities in other countries.
Evidently the terrorists have joy in causing these needless pains of loss of
lives and property.
Nevertheless, for
how long will these heartless people continue to break the hearts of people
throughout the world? For how long will they triumph in their inhuman acts? For
how long will they be jubilant in their hiding places for their seeming
success? Who will rescue the world from these terrorists that are making life
unsafe? Will they continue in these callous acts unchecked and unpunished? Who
will rise up against these people and avenge for the evils they have done?
The psalmist also
asked similar questions in Psalm 94 when his nation was facing some calamities.
However, he found solace in God, the Judge of the earth. He called on Him in
verses 1-3 to rise up and avenge.
Interestingly, in
verses 8-11, he described the senselessness of these wicked people and the fact
that God was, and still is, not indifferent to these situations. He gave a
reassuring fact in verse 14, "…the LORD will not reject his people; he
will never forsake his inheritance" (NIV).
No matter what
these terrorists and other wicked people may be doing, the Lord "will repay
them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the LORD our God
will destroy them" (Psalm 94:23 NIV). So, if you have been doing evil,
know that the Lord will repay you one day according to your deeds.
In His service,
Bayo Afolaranmi
(Pastor).
NB
I dedicate this
message to all that were affected in one terrorist attack or the other,
especially the victims of the many bomb attacks in Nigeria.
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