February 5, 2025 Devo

When you read the passage for today, did anyone think that David’s thoughts apply to TODAY? Well, they do. I always laugh a bit when people start talking about how bad the world has become as if it’s just something that happened recently. The world IS bad. Evil is EVERYWHERE. It’s just not new news.
Go back twenty to thirty years. Remember what was going on? 9/11 happened, and the Twin Towers fell. The Oklahoma City bombing took place, and terrorism came to the heartland of America. Go back further. The Vietnam War…the Korean War…World War II. Atom bombs were dropped. People were gassed and executed by the millions just because they were Jewish. Keep going. World War I. The Civil War. The horror of slavery. If you just take time to review history, you’ll come across the Inquisition, the Dark Ages, and the persecution of Christians during the Roman Empire. Era after era, century after century, all the way back to the Garden of Eden when evil planted its flag on this planet. The only difference between then and now is that television, the internet, and social media have brought the world’s evil to our screens for all to see.
David felt the weight of evil’s oppression. He saw the losses and experienced evil’s harsh hand, and it took his breath away. It felt like evil was winning. But it only FELT that way. Beyond the dark cloud that David was faced with was a God who was working. A God who was moving. A God who was preparing to do what He always does. He raises up Good in the midst of the evil. David, who was on his heels and probably on the run, would be rescued, redeemed, and restored as king. Evil does its best, but God raises up lights of hope and reminds us of what we know in our hearts, but sometimes forget. God WINS!
Take heart today. Don’t be dismayed by the headlines. Don’t let your heart grow heavy when you see evil at work. It may feel as if the world is worse today than yesterday, but it is not. Evil has been and will always be around us. But it is not winning. God is working. God is moving. Look around and you will see His lights shining and giving hope. In fact, you get the amazing privilege of being one of those lights today wherever you go. Let people know that evil is not all that is in this world. All the godly people are not dead, and YOU are living proof of that! Stand up, stand out, and be the hope that the world needs to see. Yes, evil is at work. Be the one who reminds the world that God WINS! That’s God’s Word for you today.