I was listening to this broadcast of Talk of the nation. It was about the talk of this time in history seeming to move towards world war. The professor in this interview says that he does not think that the events as he sees them are moving toward a world at war. I would disagree with him because of the fact that if you carry the events of the Iraq war, terrorist bombings, and Israeli incursion into Lebanon. The world will be at war if these small conflicts continue to brew. Even if the battles are not fought between great national armies but between small bands of terrorists, world war happens when all the world is at war.
It seems almost surreal that I should be talking about the world being at war. All my childhood I was drilled with the mantra of the Cold war. We were taught that the next world war would be like some nuclear holocaust. Media was full of the images of mushroom clouds and radioactive wastelands. I fear that we may yet see this image a reality but in the context of some terrorist act or act of desperation by some nation.
I was reminded how much we need to look to God in times like these by a fellow law enforcement officer. He showed me this article on a book found in a bog in Ireland. The passage in Pslam that is described talks about the nations of the Middle East conspiring to wipe out the nation of Israel. Whether you believe that the passage was found for a purpose or not. God's words still speak to us in so many ways. They live in present, past, and future. I will praise God all the days of my life for the gift of his living words and be confident that he will guide the world events.
