βFrom whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask notβ (James 4:1,2).
βThe world is a mess!β Those are the words often heard by Christians after seeing or hearing various news reports.
While many of these Christians have been saved for years, and have read the Bible, they still has not grown up in the Scriptures to see that this βmessβ has been an appropriate description of our world going all the way back to Genesis chapter 3! Beloved, why does it shock us that we live in βthis present evil worldβ (Galatians 1:4)? As soon as Adam willfully followed his wife Eve in rebelling against God, the world system God entrusted to Adam (Genesis 1:26,27) was passed on to Satan who was guiding Adam. Thus, in the temptations of Christ, we see Satan smugly offering to return to the Lord those kingdoms of the world if He would bow down and worship him (Matthew 4:8-10; Luke 4:5-8)!
Friend, in case you have not noticed, sin complicates life. There is an internal, spiritual struggle in the soul of every person, and that is the reason why there are fightings and wars. Wars exist outside because evil exists inside. No matter how peaceful we attempt to be, someone will always seek to steal from us, harm us, or kill us. Terrorism is nothing new and it will exist all around our globe until the Lord Jesus Christ returns to vanquish evil in earthβs governments once and for all: βAnd the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and everβ (Revelation 11:15).
While we certainly do the best with what we have, and attempt to get along with all, war is not avoidable as pacifists would have us believe. βThe LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his nameβ (Exodus 15:3). source
