I FOUND IT ALONE AND BEING FORSAKEN

How do we live in the world, the world being what it is? The prme message of The Kingdom of the Wicked is that question concerning the Cross and those who first saw the Resurrection and wondered what exactly they were supposed to do with it. A world where a son of God rises from the dead is still the world where  hundreds of Christians are burned in the Circus and where life if common with injustice where people are more right than wrong and goodness more defeated than triumphant. Th prime question of Christianity has been mistated, how can evil happen in a world controlled by an all powerful all loving God. The question is , how does one live in such a world? How does one respond to it?  

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself. It sees to the end of all temptations. As it bears no evil in itself, so it conceives none in thought to any other. If it be betrayed, it bears it, for its ground and spring is the mercies and forgiveness of God. Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life. It is conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it; nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world's joy it is murdered. I found it alone, being forsaken. I have fellowship therein with them who lived in dens and desolate places of the earth, who through death obtained this resurrection and eternal holy life.

-James Naylor 1660

This is not a spirit of weariness, despair or indifference, the three things which, along with blindness, keep people who would be good from being good.