Solomon's Porch by Wid Bastian

Author:Wid Bastian [Bastian, Wid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781622952083
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Published: 2012-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

For all but a few of the billions of people that call the earth home, this June nineteenth was like any other. An ordinary, midyear day; nothing special. The world continued to endure its miseries, the persistent plagues of greed, violence, hunger, and disease. In the developed countries, these problems were masked by social stability and economic prosperity, although even there, just under the surface, widespread need and desperation existed like dirt swept under the rug. Those souls unfortunate enough to be born in less affluent societies suffered more openly and severely.

Yet it could not be honestly said that the human race had remained in some stagnant backwater over time. Material life was improving; unevenly, but steadily. However skewed and at times chaotic, humanity appeared to be moving forward, judging progress by overall quality of life standards.

Why then was God so concerned? Why the need for such radical changes? Why act so boldly now, versus fifty years ago, or two hundred years in the future?

These were questions Peter had asked many times and in many different ways over the past year. Were we really doing such a poor job of governing ourselves? Had we strayed that far off of His course?

As Peter knelt and prayed alone in the trees behind the camp on this morning that would change all mornings he still found himself struggling with these issues. He knew better than to second guess God, he wasn’t even remotely trying to do that, but he was very much aware that the course He was about to set was in many ways an extreme departure from the one that had yielded such widespread benefits for so many for so long.

He listened as he prayed. There was a stillness in the woods, and all Peter could hear in his secluded spot a few hundred yards away from Parkersboro was the sound of a trickling wind flowing through the trees. Peter indulged himself in the solitude, seeking to focus his mind and his spirit as much as possible. He knew that very soon any amount of peace would be a precious commodity.

It was during these times the Lord made Himself known to Peter, usually not audibly or visually, but rather through the influence of ideas and Scripture.

Part of the answer to Peter’s question was simple, if not intellectually satisfying; God is omniscient and His ways are known only to Him. His will be done and by definition, His will is what’s best for His creation. Man is not God, he cannot see the outcomes God can see, the results of a continuation of business-as-usual on planet earth.

Peter also knew that it was not his mission to debate the issues of the day with others on man’s terms. He was not called to be another voice in the crowd, trying to be heard above the roar.

While few could see it, and fewer still would accept it, the future, if there was to be one, had to be ordered differently than the past. Incremental

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