AN ATTENTIVE EAR

God is compassionate. He wants you to understand that aspect of His nature. God cares for the oppressed, the orphan, and the widow(er). Moreover, He is concerned about the heavens and the earth that He created. God desires consistent engagement and communion with you. He wants to assure you that His will for your life is good—even if circumstances are not good right now.

God responds to the cries of the oppressed. God responds to the cries of the righteous. Seek Him continually! Do not resort to the methods of the oppressor or the wicked. Victory can only be sustained through righteous efforts. If you implement God’s strategies, your efforts will bless many. If you implement wicked strategies, many can be destroyed.

There is a righteous way to respond to emergencies and crises. There is a righteous intervention for every challenge. It is imperative that you understand how to navigate life effectively. No matter what anyone tries to convince you— problem solving without God’s counsel and guidance is ineffective. You need God’s presence and His governance to experience life, peace, and liberty. Choose God’s way above all else.

You may have questions about His perspective on and His will concerning all of the events transpiring in the world. The best way to understand God’s character and His will is to meditate on His word. Consider the passage below.

ISAIAH 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; 13 in transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. 19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

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