Evil Upon Evil “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Gen. 6:5) Today I feel as Lot must have felt, My soul is vexed daily with the evil of this world. Even the city I live in is said to be the crime capital of the world, or the country at least. With mayhem on every side, anarchy and political betrayal rampant in our government, and untold murders and molestations, it is no wonder the Lord is displeased with our country. It seems as if evil is piled up on top of evil creating a vast mountain that reaches far beyond our scope of understanding, and it is rapidly getting worse! It sure makes one long for heaven that much sooner, but the Lord is with His people. He will deliver us from evil, and we will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. It seems that we live among constant trouble, and few are the reprieves of joy, but there is hope in the Lord. The heart of man is desperately wicked, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9) We all know the truth of this verse, but the really scary thing is that the heart is deceitful “above all things”, friends, that is scary. The heart of man is the most wicked thing in the world--no, in the universe, and we all have one inside us! Evil seems to grow; it is progressive in the fact that one evil act promotes another, and that another, and on the cycle goes. Only the blood of Jesus can remedy it, and only faith in Him will wash our sin away, and cleanse the putrid heart within. Let us all, as Christians, hate the evil, and love the good (Amos 5:15), and obtain the favor of the Lord. “Ye that love the Lord hate evil.” Psa. 97:10