Evil and good

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. – Romans 12.9

Good and evil. How much more disparite can we get? North and south, black and white, hot and cold, up and down, light and dark, good and evil. These things are mutually exclusive. It’s the kind of thing where we can’t go halfway and do a little bit of good and a little bit of evil and a lot of halfway in between.

Abhor evil – hate it – be repulsed by it – refuse it – get rid of it – literally ‘detest it with horror

Cling to that which is good – love it – rush to it – accept rid – add it daily – literally ‘be glued to it’

You can’t get much different than that.

Why then do we, serious, dedicated, committed Christian who love God and want o live for Him still dabble with evil while we try to be good?

Because we are selfish and want to gratify us more than we want to gratify others. We feed our lust and selfishness and hatred and mean spiritedness because it gives us some kind of perverse pleasure. We still like evil, or at least what it can do for us.

I wish I could find a valid excuse for dabbling with evil instead of detesting it with horror. But I can’t. It is just a simple matter of doing what I want instead of what God wants me to do. We all need to have that abhorrence for all things evil. We all need instead to grab on to things that are good.

Until we get this straight we are not going to be able to do much for God.