by Pastor Michael Cook –
As we face 2024, our relentlessly divided national media, barking round-the-clock from our televisions and cellphone screens, agrees on one thing: on the large scale, bad things are happening, more are likely to happen, and we should all be scared or angry about them, and do whatever radical things they think should be done to prevent them from happening.
It may be hard to hope in such a time. But the Bible tells us we will never be able to see God in the stories of great powers and principalities, precisely because they are stories of sinful humanity’s ongoing struggle for power and wealth.
We can however be sure that God is at work on the large scale, but not in any way pundits could understand…
(The Rev. Michael Cook is the pastor of Philippi Christian Church in Deltaville. Email him at pastormikephilippi@gmail.com. If you are a Middlesex County pastor interested in sharing your 600 words or fewer spiritual message with thousands of Sentinel readers, consider joining the Sentinel’s pastor columnists rotation. Email Sentinel Editor Don Richeson at Editor@SSentinel.com.)
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