About keeping your head when evil strikes…
Ecclesiastes 10:4 If a ruler's anger rises against you, do not leave your
post; calmness can lay great errors to rest. (NIV)
It is easy to lose your mind when evil strikes. One of the purposes of evil
is to get you to lose your head, to abandon all your reason, and to turn into
the most debase and unreasonable person imaginable. You have seen this kind of
circumstance. Unfortunately, in our world today, people losing their minds when
evil strikes is headline news. However, when evil strikes you must keep your
head. You must keep your ability to think and reason. What is so important for
you to do is to remember to keep the chaos outside of your head, for the chaos
only truly exists outside of your head. For example, if you did not know about
some kind of evil attack, you would not respond to the attack. For it is not
what happens outside of our life that upsets us…it is our response to what
happens outside of our life that upsets us. God enables each of us to build a
wall between our heart, mind, and soul and the evil in the world. In building
your wall, the foundation of your wall and the heavy stones that make up the
wall are the love, compassion, mercy, and protective power of our Lord. When
evil strikes, we must shield ourselves from the evil by our Lord's hand. Then,
in opposition to the evil, reach out with a clear mind to strike a mighty blow
against evil with His love, compassion, mercy, and understanding.
