754 The Old Testament historical narrative of Gods judgement on the civilized nations is bathed in Gods divine revelation of Himself. God redeems His people illustrates the quality of that redemption by the sinfulness of sin. Sin represents the back drop of God working efficiently. We consider all these human questions about the suffering involved in God getting the glory for His work.We must willingly acknowledge that God not only shows through necessary death and suffering that sin is destructive but that He alone exist as this familiar process of death and destruction continues. Our temptation is intellectually to draw parallels and connections by what we see and understand about the intended purposes of these unpleasant events. The two sensible things we must understand that our ultimate survival is dependent upon identifying what God ordinarily does in this work and acknowledging that God is just and right in His purposes. Therein we heartily rejoice.

 We invariably know that Gods ultimate end of all that transpires in the world is precisely for good. And yet that good is objectively measured by the considerable suffering. This historical focus is essential in our overcoming evil and moral disaster. We discover God not beyond but under the considerable suffering. Our possible reaction to the suffering is to sink into familiar pain. It is precisely the reason that we seek to uncover a favorable answer. We find that in genuinely seeking to gain solace in the midst of the moral suffering that we are most comforted when we recite the historical works of the Lord to the Lord. We know the way out of the moral uncertainty and our anxiety of the unstable situation is what we focus on. And in some meaningful ways we discover the mystery of the greatness of God diverting our experience of evil into His greatness. The Psalmist justifiably says he will declare the historical works of the Lord. We cannot steadfastly avoid the suffering and evil knowing that our only hope of Gods greatness is acknowledging He overcomes all of these terrible events as proof that He is good in interacting with them. God is not silent or unconcerned. He is not standing far off. The only other option is to trust in a god we ordinarily make of our own. 754