Victory

I've started and stopped several posts over the past week.  My thoughts were jumbled...filled with disgust and disbelief over the events in our country.  But in the midst of those emotions, a verse kept repeating itself over and over in my mind.  

Isaiah 54:17.  "The weapon may be formed, but it won't prosper."  

A few years ago, a song was released with that verse as its opening line and went on to say..."when the darkness falls, it won't prevail...cause the God I serve knows only how to triumph...my God will never fail." the song ends with, "You take what the enemy meant for evil and You turn it for good. You turn it for good."  And that is where I choose to plant my feet.  Because it's true.  If you have doubts that God will always prevail over evil, I hope you tuned in to Charlie Kirk's memorial service.  The thousands and thousands of people who heard the gospel....the many who gave their hearts to Jesus for the very first time...hearing the most powerful people in our country acknowledging the goodness of God...and watching the supernatural power of God give a grieving widow the strength to offer genuine forgiveness because, "it's what Christ would do"..... that's victory, my friends.  I feel like at some point, we've all felt like the prophet Habakkuk, when he asked God,

 "Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention arises." 

and God answers, 

"Look among the nations and watch.  Be utterly amazed! For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told."  

Yesterday I was utterly amazed.  Thank you God for always turning evil for good...for pouring your Spirit out...help us hold fast to that promise in the days ahead.