If the days were evil when the apostle Paul wrote these
words to the Ephesians what are they now?
Truth is every age competes in the evil age idol contest and seems to believe
their days are more evil than the ones that came before. There was at least one
moment in history when a good number of Christian people thought the world was
getting better and better but that dream died in the trenches of World War One
and the church has never fully recovered its optimism for the kingdom come on
earth. So should we occupy the street corners and the air waves with doom and
gloom and prepare for the worst declaring our age to be the evil age idol
contest winner? I think that would be unwise. If anything is evil it is living
comfortable lives singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among ourselves
while others suffer and we do nothing about it. If we understand what the will
of God is we will sing the song sung among ourselves as loudly as we are able outside
the confines of the church. We will sing the song of suffering that declares
evil cannot overpower it; the song of hope that dares evil to defy it; the song
of redemption that challenges evil to limit it. The “making melody to the Lord
in our hearts” is the song the world needs to hear and if we sing it clearly
and with compassion we might, by God’s grace, lose the evil age idol contest.
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