Switch on the light
Feb 24
Romans 12:21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
I have been thinking a lot lately about the Christian life being the two sides of a coin. We cannot get rid of the one side, we must always bear the pain of having evil with us. Like Paul says in chapter 7, he sees two laws at work, one for good and one for evil.
Paul goes on to say what a wretched man he is. He feels wretched because he longs to be free of the other side of the coin, but he realises that aint gonna happen this side of the grave.
So here again, we must not be overcome by evil, but we must overcome evil. It is clear that either good or evil will overcome. In the natural evil will triumph, but we need to call on the spiritual, and we can then overcome evil. But Paul goes on here to show how it must be done. We know from James, that if we resist the devil he will flee from us. All we need to do is resist. But the way we resist is to do good. We overcome evil with good. We overcome darkness with light.
So shine on people!