Middle East, Los Angeles, Feckless US Senate: It All Looks Bad But There's True Hope on the Horizon

Survey the headlines on any given morning this week and the temptation toward despair practically markets itself. A Middle East ceasefire that exists mostly on paper keeps shuddering toward collapse. A Los Angeles election that looked, on Tuesday night, like a genuine populist breakthrough is being quietly subtracted away one mail tranche at a time. And the United States Senate, controlled by Republicans, cannot summon the will to pass the very bill designed to stop exactly the kind of slow-motion vanishing act now playing out in California. Three fronts, three apparent defeats, all in the same news cycle.The believer is given a different vantage point, and it is not naive optimism. Scripture does not promise that the news will be good. It promises something far stranger and far sturdier, that the God who numbers the hairs on our heads also removes kings and raises them up, and that the very things plotted for evil are routinely the raw material He uses for good.Read More: https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/middle-east-los-angeles-fecklessSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.