Monday... It can be so easy to not notice. It really can.

Monday... It can be so easy to not notice. It really can. Because it is all around us.

But the Psalmist writes in 97:10 (MSG), "God loves all who hate evil." He really does.

He goes on, "And those who love him he keeps safe. Snatches them from the grip of the wicked."

It is so easy for us to get so complacent and not see and react to the evil that is around us. I mean, we might be more frustrated about the higher gas prices than the evil that is happening toward the people in the Ukraine or evil toward women, men, children, those different than us, the poor and the addicted. Again, "God loves all you hate evil."

Verse 11 says, "Light-seeds are planted in the souls of God's people, joy-seeds are planted in good soil." There is something different about those who love God. There really is.

Verses 10-11 in The New Living Translation says, "You who love the Lord hate evil! He protects the lives of his godly people and rescues them from the power of the wicked. Light shines on the godly, and joy on those whose hearts are right."

Listen, those who love God are different and they make a difference and they see evil in a different way and try to stop it from happening. You see, maybe it is through us that God "protects the lives of his godly people and rescues them from the power of the wicked." Our church has a ministry that is called Celebrate Recovery that strives to break the evil of additions.

There is freedom to worship God in the Ukraine that isn't in Russia. And evil wants to destroy that freedom. Oh, God may we not be complacent but do all we can to protect the lives of godly people and rescue those from the power of the wicked.

And then verse 12 (Amp) says, "Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones [whose moral and spiritual integrity places them in right standing with God], and praise and give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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