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our world needs God's hope and love

Zechariah 7:9   NLT This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Judge fairly, and show mercy and kind ness to one another. I have been struggling with this devotion most of the day.   Actually is started in my mind a few days ago with the death of a man in my home town of Tulsa, Oklahoma by a police officer and then what has happened closer to us in Charlotte, North Carolina.   My heart aches for hurting people around the world.   To hear of hatred, riots and more pain being caused crushes my heart, and honestly it is hard to grasp.   People in so many different places are hurting, questioning their situation and in deep need of the hope that only God can give. I talked with a young man earlier this week who recently got out of jail, then was in the hospital and now he is struggling with being told he has a mental illness.   Maybe I left out what connected us, this young man was homeless.   We talked about his options, about his f...