Do you ever despair at the condition of the church? At the seeming lack of impact that the church has and the people of God the lack of impact that the people have gone have in this world? Or at the persecution of God's people, at the infighting and abandonment of biblical morality of so many. How can it be? How long will this continue? We're God's people, after all. Has God abandoned his people? Why am I so weak and irrelevant? Why do I suffer? And the ungodly are so powerful and strong?