WHEN EVIL WINS

Sometimes believers struggle with “Why do evil people win?” kinds of questions. Maybe one reason is for that is that our focus is in the wrong place.

We assume that God, being good, will not allow bad things to happen to those who love Him, or those with evil agendas to succeed. We assume that our happiness or success at this time is a measure of how well we have believed or been faithful to Him.

Our focus shouldn’t be on our situation or condition. That makes it easy to miss an important part of the big picture.

It’s hard in our day to conceive of God as allowing the wicked to prevail, unless we recognize that there is some kind of judicial purpose in it. That means that in a sense, God is “giving them enough rope to hang themselves.” Many Scriptures reflect this truth.

Psalm 9:17-20 “The wicked will return to Sheol, even all the nations who forget God. For the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever. Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged before You. Put them in fear, O Lord; let the nations know that they are but men.”

I Thessalonians 2:14-16 “For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.”

Someone observed once that “the wheels of God’s justice turn very slowly.” But they still turn.

Don’t concern yourself too much with why things are the way they are in a rebellious, sinful world. 

Just be faithful to Christ. Be obedient to Scripture. Trust God to bring about His justice in His way & in His time.