The World Is at War Again – and God Has Not Left the Room
By Pastor Adama Segbedji | Solution Chapel International
I’ve been watching the news this week like most of you. The images coming out of Iran and Lebanon are the kind that stay with you. Thousands of people dead. Cities shaken. A region that has been a flashpoint for centuries now bleeding again. And somewhere in the middle of the diplomatic language and the military briefings and the ticker-tape of breaking news, ordinary people are sitting with a question they don’t quite know how to say out loud.
Is anyone actually in control of this?
It’s a fair question. An honest one. Because when you watch the world’s most powerful nations drawn into conflict, when the death tolls climb and the Strait of Hormuz becomes a bargaining chip, the carefully maintained idea that human beings have figured out how to manage this planet starts to feel very thin indeed.
I’m not going to tell you this isn’t serious. It is. I’m not going to offer you a tidy theological explanation for why wars happen and God allows them — that conversation deserves more than a few paragraphs. What I will tell you is what I know to be true after years of walking with people through moments that felt like the floor had given way.
God has not left the room.
There’s a passage in Isaiah 46 that I’ve returned to more times than I can count. God speaks and says, “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done.” That’s not a claim any government can make. No president, no supreme leader, no military coalition has ever been able to look at history and say — I already knew this. I already saw this. And I have already prepared the outcome.
God can. God does. And that changes everything about how you sit with the news.
It doesn’t mean you switch off. It doesn’t mean you stop caring about the lives being lost. But it means you don’t have to carry the weight of wondering whether chaos has finally won. It hasn’t. It can’t. Because the One who spoke the world into being is not wringing His hands over the Strait of Hormuz.
If you’ve been feeling the anxiety of this week — the low-grade dread that comes from watching things you can’t control — I want to invite you to bring that to somewhere it can actually be held. Come and be with us at Solution Chapel International. We meet every Sunday and we’d genuinely love to have you. Whatever you’re carrying, you don’t have to carry it alone. Find us at 10 New Street, Three Bridges, Crawley, RH10 1LW or visit www.solutionchapel.org.
Jesus said something to his disciples on the night before everything fell apart for them — “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” He said that knowing exactly what was coming. That peace was not ignorance. It was authority.
That peace is still available. Right now. Today.
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