It is easy to buy into the trap of thinking that the only way to respond to evil is to fight back in kind. The best way to fight fire is with fire, right? That’s what the world says anyway.
But God’s way flies in the face of that proverb. God says that the way to overcome evil is with good. God’s way says that if we try to overcome evil with more evil we are no better than the world.
Plus, if we, as God’s people try to overcome evil with evil we will never succeed. Evil is what the world us expert at – God’s people should be expert at good.
The clearest example of this was the early church under Roman rule. It was a terrible time of persecution and opposition. Chrsitans were being brutally tortured and executed for their faith. They had no rights.
So how did they resond? With protests and civil insurrection and violence?
No, they resonded with love. One of the Roman empowers was mystified by their response. He said that the Christian had the gall to not only love each other, but they loved the Roman oppressors. When they brought food to their love ones in jail they brought food for the jailers and guards. No matter what happened they responded with good.
Eventually God’s goodness would be victorious. Goodness should be our specialty. It is God’s way. We do it and we trust God with the results.
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