If the Foundations Are Destroyed, What Can the Righteous Do? (Luke 11:-14-28) - a podcast by Immanuel Baptist Church

How do we carry the burden of other people’s tragedies, empathize without being overwhelmed, persevere in
caring for the weary and wounded (even when your own wounds may be festering)? What do we do when theattempt to empathize and help others carry their burdens wears us down? What comeback do we have when the
enemy confronts us with the claim that the foundations are being destroyed – and the world situation seems to bearit out – and the conclusion seems logical that there’s nothing to be done but shrug our shoulders and fall into mere
“survival mode”? How does a Christian respond to a world that seems determined to destroy us all? How do wekeep our sanity in the midst of so much chaos going on all around us? Compassion fatigue is a term that describes
the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping others (often through experiences of stress or trauma),without adequate breaks or support. Our world’s many hotspots of violence, terrorism, war, starvation, and other
human tragedies can quickly bring us to the border of compassion collapse. One prominent psychologist tells usthat trauma victims will be the new missions frontier of the 21 st century (Diane Langberg).
How do we keep our sanity in the midst of so much chaos going on in our world right now? There has to be areference point for it that’s much bigger than we are. In Ps. 11, the answer to the question about what can the
righteous do seems to be that there’s nothing to be done; the cause is hopeless; we may as well give up and justfocus on self. But the psalmist’s answer is about affirming the truth of God’s sovereignty: He’s on His throne, in
His holy temple; no matter how disastrous the outlook, He sees, He tests the children of Adam, He examines therighteous, but He despises the wicked and their violence; they will not ultimately triumph.

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