Jeremiah 8:15 English Standard Version (ESV) We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

Looking around us at current events this might seem to be an appropriate scripture. It sure sounds like current events. When things begin to happen in the world and we seek the bible to help us sort out the why of it all, we can come across scriptures that read like this is it. It is not. It is a different time and a different place and a different people. What happened then has nothing to do with our current situation.

God knew what was happening then and He knows what is happening now. When we look for answers in the bible we are often asking the wrong questions seeking an answer we can live with. It does not work that way. If we have accepted Jesus Christ into our hearts then the answers to the real questions to the real problem dwells inside us.

Proverbs 12:25a English Standard Version (ESV) Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down,

Are you dissatisfied with current events? Those emotions have existed for as long as man has been cast out of paradise. How to deal with that dissatisfaction dwells in us. Are you unhappy? You are not going to find any lasting joy in the world. Our joy dwells in us. Are you afraid? He who overcame the world abides in us.

Are you tired? Me too but mine is old age. What is making you tired? Striving in the world is like swimming upstream through rapids. You get beat up, exhausted and gain nothing. Try to find today’s answers in the bible can be like striving against the Spirit. He is here to speak truth into our lives. He is not “the answer man” who just tells us what we want to hear. He is here to speak about Jesus Christ, who by the way abides in our hearts.