“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
The Apostle Paul
This is a command.
Don’t do this. Do this.
Don’t be overcome. Overcome.
Win.
Triumph.
Conquer.
Refuse to let evil defeat you. Instead defeat evil.
How?
With good.
Good overcomes evil.
Good is better than evil.
More beautiful, desirable, powerful, reasonable.
Light exposes what’s hidden in the dark, eradicating
darkness by simply being itself.
The same is true of good and evil.
Take a Christ-like husband as an example.
A Christ-like husband is more attractive, beautiful, and
powerful than an adulterer.
He loves truly and permanently. He becomes more like God everyday. God is The Eternal Beautiful Powerful Desirable. He cannot be boring because He is Eternal
Life. Every husband that imitates God will become more attractive everyday to his Christ-like wife. Physically, he will please his wife because
he loves her and has given himself to her alone. He will please her mind because he becomes
more interesting as the years pass, becoming more like God, and thus becoming
new with each stage of life. Spiritually his presence becomes more powerful with age. He becomes more secure in his identity and destiny.
But the adulterer is the opposite of everything the Christ-like husband is. He only loves himself and uses the adulteress for
his own pleasure. He is neither
committed to God nor his wife. He hides
in hotels and in secret times and places.
He hides because he should. He is
ashamed of his dishonesty, and he should be.
He has no beauty or glory, because he rejects God's glory. He refuses to be what God made him to be.
So everything that is truly attractive or desirable is made by
God, and is as God made it to be.
Evil is
only a hidden perversion of something good.
Satan seeks to make evil attractive, and himself attractive as the evil
one. But the mere presence of good
exposes this lie.
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