God Has Already Won

 

 

 Humans intrinsically have a problem thinking about things that happen after their life in this world is ended. St. Paul said we have eyes for the invisible:

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,
but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary,
but what is unseen is eternal."

~2 Corinthians 4:18

but we are still flesh and blood and often fix our minds, rather insistently, on flesh and blood and matter and the visible. I think St. Paul was being aspirational here: that's what we believers SHOULD be focused on, not what we usually actually ARE. Given all the problems in the Corinthian church, I bet the flock there was not unlike us in that respect.

Here in the US, we have a person with a considerable chance of becoming President of the United States who is essentially a communist who believes in abortion on demand with few or no restrictions. She believes in rampant government theft of our possessions. She is a warmonger, just like the neocons who now often support her. She is almost guaranteed to wreak havoc on the economy, and will if she is able to also do the same to society in general. That's assuming that the world's various hotspots don't erupt into a broader and more dangerous conflagration.

It's not that we were in great shape before. And only against such a candidate would her competition look like a white knight charging to the rescue, when as compared to the great Presidents of the past like Eisenhower he looks like a midget. I have lost count of the number of people who don't at all like Donald Trump who will nevertheless vote for him since the alternative is... that truly unpleasant and sin-celebrating woman.

After the debate, I was fuming. And then suddenly I got relief in my heart. Yes, a godless people in a democracy might well vote for a godless awful President. Why would that be a surprise? But I'm going to be fine, and in the bigger view it is all already over. Evil and the devil have already lost. G-d has already won. It's over.

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart!
I have overcome the world.”

~John 16:33

HAVE. Present tense. It IS overcome, it just doesn't know it yet. This world's mortgage has been foreclosed, the eviction letter is sitting in the mailbox, but the tenants go on imagining that they run the place.

As Paul said, the solution is to fix our eyes on the eternal and invisible, not the temporary and visible. Now, I think that if that evil woman becomes the leader (or puppet) of this country, I'm not going to lose sleep over it. The world is going one direction, to it's destruction; but we believers are not going that direction. We are pilgrims in an alien land, our home and destination is in another place.

G-d has already won.