The Prevailing Power

Although there are some who would argue that everything some might call an expression of evil is nothing but some psychological problem, or sociological issue, I will continue in my belief that evil remains very much imbedded in our society and sometimes even in our souls.  When some say psychological; others might say evil.  This is not to take away or deny the reality of mental illness, but neither should we in a similar kind of stroke dismiss evil as an explanation for so much of what we see within the society in which we live.   

At one extreme there is war.  War means that people do horrible things to other people.  Terrible things take place which were thought to be beyond human capabilities.  And at the other extreme are the things one person inflicts upon another person in what appears to be a normal moment.  Doing violent acts simply for the sake of doing them and with such random abandonment is hard for reasonable people to understand.  The very presence of evil in the world is often times the only explanation for the horrible things we see and sometimes experience.  It is a good world that God has created, but it is also true that evil has permeated it to the point that some are tempted to forget whose hand brought it into being.  

The Scripture affirms that the Creation is good and that the essence of God exists in everything and everyone, but neither does it deny that evil is the great perversion that undermines goodness and confuses some to the point of thinking that there can be no good when evil is so rampant.  We must never forget that it was evil which put Jesus on the cross, but it was the goodness of God which prevailed in lifting Him from the tomb in resurrection power.  In a world where evil exists alongside of goodness, goodness always and ultimately prevails.