For someone with very little scientific knowledge, I seem to
be rather focused on black holes at the moment.
It’s just that today, as I was praying for the world, I was
using my most recent aide memoire, a small globe peppered with black dots where
the current trouble spots are. Over the Middle East spreads a blanket of black
dots. You can see where this is going.
It appears from this globe that the Middle East is at
present a black hole. Need presses on need. Atrocity follows horror. Injustice
and pitiless brutality are mind-boggling in the extreme. Darkness pervades and
it seems as if it is impermeable to light.
But even I know that when light comes, darkness flees. Jesus
is the light of the world. When he comes into situations of extreme darkness,
light comes with him.
So, the Middle East is currently a place of extreme
darkness, like a black hole eating up all the matter it encounters. But God has
the power to transform that matter into brilliant light. He has the power to
give individuals ‘Damascus-road experiences’. To change them from murderous
zealots to Spirit-filled believers. Like a quasar, perhaps one day the Middle
East will shine with the light of Jesus.
No doubt about it. Jesus is the hope of the nations, and as
dark as nations may appear, he can transform that darkness in an instant.
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