How much do you hate
evil? How we feel about evil is reflected in how we live. The more we despise
evil, the more we will avoid it and strive to live a holy life. Take a moment
and think about how you react when evil rears its ugly head. Do you ignore it?
Do you tolerate it? Do you indulge in it? Does it repulse you? Do you try to
squash it?
Evil is everywhere we
are at. We can't avoid it and whether or not we think we are, we are doing
something about it. We are either participating in it, condoning it, or
resisting it. We cannot be neutral about it. If we are in Christ, we do make
choices about it all the time. When we
let it entertain us we are choosing it instead of righteousness. When we allow it to go on uncontested around
us, we are choosing it instead of righteousness. If we truly hated evil, I suspect things
would be quite different in our homes, churches and world.
If we are in Christ,
we ought to have strong feelings about evil. We should hate all that robs the
soul of life and destroys it. We should not tolerate those who blatantly do
evil. We may not be able to stop them, but we certainly can resist the urge to
join them in their evil. We can speak up when we have the opportunity. We can
urge those who do evil to stop and repent. We can all do something instead of
sitting by and letting evil go wild around us.
We forfeit our right
to complain about it if we are not willing to do something about it. We who are
in Christ must resist it. We must be advocates for righteousness. We must be
part of the solution and not the problem. God commands us to be lights in the
darkness. When we don't do it, it is sin.
When we have a proper
fear of God we will have a proper attitude about evil. We must understand the holiness of God and
its impact on how God treats us. God is
absolutely holy and He will absolutely judge all sin.
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