Evil is evil. Black is black, white is white, and when the boogie man shows up, we lock all our doors and windows.
On September 13, 2014, just two days after the anniversary of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks, World News headlines ran the gamut of boogie men. Two thousand people were threatened with devastating floods in Croatia; thousands of people rose in protest in Madrid against bull-spearing; the family of a Syria hostage pled for their loved-one’s life; and Ebola infected yet another Sierra Leone doctor, after taking 2,400 lives in West Africa.
It’s time to lock all our doors and windows. Or, is it?
Amalek rose up against Israel, and 1 Samuel 15:3 gives us God’s instructions: “Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
God didn’t say to build higher walls and hunker down for safety. No! He said, Go and take down the boogie man!
In Hosea 13:16, God places the blame precisely where it belongs, when he says: “Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.”
We can give the boogie man no quarter, either in the physical world or in the spiritual one. Samaria made her choice, and we make our choices with our relationship with God.
We can’t depend on our families for our salvation, either. Ezekiel 18:20 states: “The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.”
What we must remember is that the boogie man doesn’t control us spiritually. We have a higher power in charge of who we are.
Read in Genesis 2:7: “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”
God was at the beginning. He is with us now, and there is nothing in our future that he does not control.
Check out Malachi 3:6: “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.”
We can relax in the arms of our God. Let the floods come, ignore the protests, and don’t worry about whether we live or die. God is in control, for he is the one that never changes.
When we place our faith in God, we are secure in every way.
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