Evil
tidings tend to strike fear into the heart, whether global as in warming or
war, or closer to home as in loss of health or employment or relationship. Even
the most optimistic must admit we live in an age of uncertainly, but then every
age is in its own way insecure. The response of the righteous to uncertain
times is not to circle the wagons, retreating behind walls of stricter laws and
harsher penalties, nor do the righteous long for an earlier less uncertain time, which
is in truth a seeking after Shangri-La. The response of the righteous to evil tidings
in every age of uncertain times is to be gracious and merciful. Hearts that are
steady in unsteady times distribute freely to the poor, lend themselves and
their resources generously and deal justly with all in every circumstance. The
wicked see it and scoff, but will gnash their teeth and melt away the longer
the righteous persist in being righteous. Whether wealth and riches follow
remains to be seen, or perhaps the righteous know that wealth is fleeting and
seeking after riches vain glory and like the desire of the wicked comes to naught.
Steady hearts that do not fear live today as if the “I make all things new” endless
age was an already here though a not yet present reality. And of course it is
and will be whenever and wherever the righteous act righteously.
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