Evil

Let’s say that God is God, i.e., knows everything, can do anything, and so forth.  Let’s say that God is love.  What then?

Can God do anything bad to us?  Can God do anything bad for us?  I think not.  What do you think?

If it is true that God knows what is best for us, and cannot, by virtue of his love for us, do anything other than what is best for us, then our only job is to get out of the way.

Now I am aware that there are evil influences in the world:  Satan and his people.  And I’m aware that they can do bad stuff and are frightfully deceptive.  But God is bigger than them, and if I let God fight them, and I get out of His way, and I say “No” to them, He is going to win.

Let’s talk about deception for a moment.  I know that Satan and his people are going to try to fool me into thinking that good is bad and bad is good and, worst of all, that Satan and his people are going to tell me that none of that is very important.  But… if I ask God to reveal good and evil to me, what will He do?  He will reveal it!  In fact, He must reveal it!  Why?  Because He not only loves me, but He is love.  He cannot do anything bad to me and He must do everything good for me!  Now read carefully…  I’m not saying that God has to choose to do good for me because I say so, or because I deserve it, or because He feels guilty otherwise, or because He wants to please me, or because He wants to please someone else or even that He likes to be good;  I’m saying that God doesn’t have to make a choice to do good for me because He IS good!

I don’t have to talk God into being good to me.  I don’t have to earn it.  I don’t have to be able to defeat the forces of evil.  I just have to admit that God is good, admit that I can’t be as good as He is, accept His goodness, and get out of the way!

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