When in Bali, we saw a typical tourist rendition of a Hindu dance of good verses evil. This was the representation of evil. Let's say...the face of evil:
Big face, long teeth, long fingernails...blond hair, OK maybe not the blond hair but you get the picture. This week the face of evil looks a lot like the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, not too long ago the tsunami in Asia. This morning they were interviewing a Doctor in Haiti, in the back ground you could hear a screaming child. Heart wrenching sounds from desperate pain in a hellish situation. We also hear that Haiti somehow deserves this because they have sold their collective soul to Satan. I think it is a bit scary to attribute overt worship of Satan and covert worship of Satan (the god money that the west worships) as reasons for wanton and indiscriminate destruction. Is this the wrath of God at work or is it the face of evil at play? What we know of the enemy...indiscriminate destruction of people who are already poor just because one can... plays itself out in every catastrophe where death and anguish are the result. Where is God in all of this pain...meticulously using one fallen corrupt nation to help another. Where is God in all of this...no matter how bad bad is...there is still good when people pour out their love for the broken just because they are broken. Where is God...is us. The world groans waiting in expectation to become less a violent representation of evil and more the redeemed work of Creation. What a day that will be...
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