The Devil's Finiteness

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 As I face an uncertain world riddled with lies, backroom deals, oppression, war, and hate, I have many of the same fears and anxieties as anyone else would. The evil here can be terrorizing and even crippling, and I have already been struck by much of it.


         I've been decked hard in my life by cruelty and hate, but I still function and I still breathe and I still walk and talk and think. Apparently that evil doesn't seem to be allowed to terminate me, even with how awful some of the stuff I went through was. 


    The suffering of humanity can be a lot to take in at times, with wars, plagues, famines and other disasters striking left and right. As I observe much of this, my heart can hurt a lot, and I find myself feeling a righteous anger towards the Devil and his angels that can make me feel quite helpless and frustrated. The man was a murderer and a thief, and that's all he ever will be even to his destruction. 


     The damage and death that he sowed into the world has poisoned a place that was designed to be a paradise. A place worthy of God's grace and His glory. But now it is a fractured and dying world, twisted by deceptive ideologies, needless division, selfish interest, fear and hate, and inhuman cruelty pervading all parts of this world.


     Even when the lies the enemy sowed in my own life occupy my thoughts and when the brunt of the darkness and wickedness hits me every once in awhile, I remind myself of a truth that even the Devil himself can't escape from, the enemy's finiteness and limitedness in the face of an infinite God. Jesus, for me, is sovereign over a truly infinite system.


 All the stars, galaxies, universes, realities, and down to particles and atoms are Jesus's sovereign territory. He is limitless in His power and authority. The devil, as far as I know, is given authority over just this one, tiny world orbiting one star out of 300 billion or so stars in our galaxy out of a trillion galaxies in our universe. Quite the hermit kingdom if you ask me. Just one world, ruled by a finite rebel angel and his followers out of an existence that I believe to be infinite, created by an infinite God. 


A finite devil could never usurp or overthrow an infinite creator. It would like a speck of dust  at the center of a gas giant trying to overthrow a galaxy. When I realize the enemy's finiteness and the infiniteness of my God, my mind is set at ease, and I can eat my cheeseburgers and clean my toilets in peace, and be truly grateful such a God loves me with all of that infinite strength. 


The evil of this world is put in its place when faced with the absolute, limitless sovereignty of God.

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