Wickedness in the World

"The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart." -Genesis 6:5-6

This week has been sort of a challenge for me...

I found myself crying out to God, on Tuesday, as my heart shattered into pieces after discovering such a heart wrenching story on TikTok.

Now, usually, I do my best to not get lured into the deadly trap of scrolling on social media. However, on this particular day, my mind was already distracted and my body desired nothing more than to lie in bed and rest. 

I came across a video of a young man who was singing this BEAUTIFUL song! His name on TikTok is I AM ROZE (@iamusaccount).

In this song, he said "Tell me, why does the price of someone else's life equal my dollar?!" When I say this line hit me so hard in my gut! His voice already had me hooked because you could hear the levels of emotion expressed with every note and every word. And his voice just echoed as though his soul was crying out to the heavens. My God. But this part resonated so deeply in my heart and the way he sang it... I just wanted to cry.

As I'm listening to him sing, immediately I went to the comments. I noticed other people were feeling the exact same way about that line as well. But what caught my attention more was the number of comments mentioning someone named "Cwe Cwe." So, of course, me being my nosy and curious self, I clicked on one of the search blue hyperlinks that someone had posted. 

The results of what came up shook my spirit and left me speechless.

Cwe Cwe, God rest her soul, was this gorgeous 7-year-old girl from South Africa who was sexually assaulted at her school by an adult and as a result lost her life thereafter. I won't go into full detail because the story angers me to no end and honestly, it doesn't make any sense. But I feel this is another classic case of someone with authority taking advantage of a child and using their power, money and title to escape justice.

After watching about 5 more videos, I could feel this flame arise in my chest, my blood was boiling over and my body was tense. I snapped...

The tears started flowing and I began to curse the devil repeatedly with all my might. I was so infuriated that I had to get out of bed and walk around my home. 

After pacing the house for a few minutes, I sat back down in the middle of my bed, and I just held my face in my hands. I cried and I cried. I called out to God and asked Him why? Why does He allow such wicked and vile behavior to continue? Why does He allow such evilness to prevail against innocent people like this?

This was a child, a beautiful, innocent child. No child deserves to endure such torture nor lose their life because of it. No child should have to suffer at the hands and actions of an adult who lacks the reason or ability to control themselves like that. 

And what angers me more is that it's always someone in a position of power who gets away with things like this and it happens all too often around the world.

I asked God "why do You allow this wickedness to continue and run rampant upon the earth? Why do you allow innocent people, innocent children, your children... adult and child alike... why do you allow them to suffer this way? You have the power to end all of this evil in the earth; you could end all suffering right now and allow those who are innocent to live at peace. So why not do it?"

Once I was finally able to console myself and dry my tears, Holy Spirit led to me Genesis chapter 5. He displayed to me the scripture I included above. This verse was God speaking to Noah, before the flood, about how he regretted creating man on the earth because of the wickedness and evil that consumed their hearts.

As I continued reading of how the Lord was regretful against mankind, Holy Spirit then reminded me of how he currently has me reading the Book of Revelation. Lord confirmed that He did indeed promise to never flood the earth again, but He was reminding me of how we are definitely in the Last Days. And what is to come, will be an equivalent of what happened during the Great Flood. God is essentially planning to "reset" the earth and usher it back to how things were in the beginning when he created it. A New Heaven & A New Earth. A place where peace and love will prevail, there will be no evil.

God was explaining to me that what I was feeling now, was what He had been feeling for centuries. But he loves us so much to still allow us to continue out our lives. He gave us another chance to live in righteousness, but deep down I feel He knew that despite giving us a second chance that we would fall and sin again anyway. Mankind suffers heavily from pride and ego.

I asked God "What glory does He receive when these people commit these vile acts, but justice is never served against them?"

Holy Spirit then sent me back to Jeremiah 11:8 and Jeremiah 11:11.

"Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So, I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I commanded them to follow but that they did not keep."

"Therefore, thus says the Lord 'Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.'" 

Holy Spirit ministered to me that the wicked never truly prosper, especially not in the spirit realm. 

While on the surface of our reality it may seem that those who commit evil acts are wealthier and get away with their terrible acts, God always seeks vengeance and justice for all of his children. His timing is not our timing, and Justice always comes in some form or fashion, though we may not see it firsthand or publicly, or in the ways we expect and desire.

"Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?" -Jeremiah 12:1

He also understands that those of us who live righteously and do our best to stay on the straight and narrow path that God has laid before us, we feel jaded sometimes and wonder what is the point if we continue to suffer while those who are evil seem to have more and greater success?

Holy Spirit then pointed out that the enemy does a good job of turning warm hearts cold in this wicked and evil world. God does not want us giving up the good fight but rather keep fighting more for is right. There is a reward that comes to us in staying close to Him and continuing to seek Him in all things. It pleases God to see His children display such emotion and passion when we see others doing wrong and seeking justice for what it right. That is the point, for the good that is left in us to prevail over evil despite what we see occurring in the world. Showing Him that even though we know what is to come, mankind still has a chance through those of us that continue to love God and do what is right.

"But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for the murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death." -Revelation 21:8