Psalm 10:14-17 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁴ But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation,
    that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless commits himself;
    you have been the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
    call his wickedness to account till you find none.

¹⁶ The Lord is king forever and ever;
    the nations perish from his land.
¹⁷ O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
    you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

At this present time under these present conditions I want God to put an end to it all. This is my most selfish being. I am so tired of all this. All this encompasses more than you know, even more than I am aware of and I know too much. The list of wickedness would take up time that could be put to better use.

God will put an end to all this and I know when. When His Son’s bride is complete to His satisfaction and not my own. It is the bridegroom’s father that decides when his son and his betrothed are ready for marriage. It is the father that prepares the wedding feast. At this time God the Father says “Gather my Son’s betrothed and prepare her.”

If we truly want to see God put an end to all this, then preach the gospel to the lost and spread the love of Christ into the midst of the affliction. People are tired of all this and they want a way out.

John 14:6 English Standard Version (ESV) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

There is no better time to speak the truth than in the midst of affliction.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 English Standard Version (ESV) What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

We can all agree that new discoveries are being made every day. Advances in medicine have closed in on cures for diseases that once killed many people. Technologies allow us to examine in greater detail sub particles and the outmost reaches of our galaxy. Yet this comment by King Solomon is as true today as it was in his day.

How can that be? Because it is only new to us. God has seen it all and already knows what is to come. We only want to acknowledge truths we know, evidence of things that can be examined and explained.

Repetition is required for us to be able to hold firm in our memory those things we hold to be true or near and dear to us. We have offsite memory storage facilities because our minds cannot hold the vast knowledge available to us. We use search engines to recover data in storage. It seems there are more and more “clouds” appearing in this information technology era.

There is however a need for us to hold important information that we use every day. Those things we place within the memory circuits of our minds. We need them to be accessible on demand, without delay with a certainty appropriate to the importance of the information.

Isaiah 32:6 English Standard Version (ESV) For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

How do we guard our minds against this danger?

Place the truth within easy reach. We place things in memory by repetition so that when needed the truth is available at that very moment. Do not stop reading His Word.