No Rest For The Good

Centuries ago, an ancient “father of the Church” named Cyprian, who lived in North Africa, sent a letter to a friend. In it he said,

This seems a cheerful world when I view it from the fair garden, here in the shadow of these vines. But if I climb some great mountain and look out over the wide land, you know exactly what I see: murderers on the high roads; pirates on the seas; under every roof, misery and selfishness. It’s really a bad world, my friend. It is a very bad world.

Often in mysterious ways, God is forever establishing His rule in this “world of misery and selfishness,” as Cyprian described it. At the very points at…