I was reading Scripture this morning. In Psalm 125 the writer uses imagistic language to contrast two ways of living: restless evil vs. enduring peace.

In verse one the poet writes, “Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever” (Ps 125:1 ESV). The literary stage is set via imagery. One type of people (the godly) are pictured as a city on a hill, abiding forever.

The implication of its opposite should be clear to readers. The wicked (the ungodly who hate God) are restless and unsatisfied unless they’re tearing down and disrupting. They have to steal, kill, and destroy. That is their nature.

Here’s a line of poetry that should shake us to our core: “For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wrong” (Ps 125:3 ESV).

Connection to Our Day: When I read that universities are now canceling graduation ceremonies because the mobs of imbecility are tearing the schools down, I have to go, “Well, yes, what should you expect? You’re surprised that godless, useful idiots loot, demolish, scream, and behave as hoodlums. That’s what you’ve raised them on–nihilism, godlessness, solipsism, atheism, and feelings. Not truth, not the understanding and knowledge of the holy, not Scripture, but just hate, emotion, entitlement, and nonsense. You’re reaping the whirlwind you have sown, and you want us to be surprised?”

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Be encouraged, Christian pilgrim. Your lights will become more evident as the darkening tides of secular hate cover the lands.

When a civilization rejects God, rejects the Christ of God, chaos eventually ensues. It’s been the same pattern since Genesis 3.

And when the purple-haired urchins scream for lunch money but cannot articulate a coherent thought, just know that they’re reaping what they’ve sown, and all they know how to do is destroy everything. Their drug is wielding scepters of wickedness.