A Daily Devotional

About seeing evil�

Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. (NIV)

We must not be blind. We must be persons of vision. We must not lie to ourselves. We must be honest and see evil's intent. When we are honest we can see evil's aims for us. We then have an opportunity to combat evil with love and with the light of Christ. We must be able to see evil because evil wants to live in the dark shadows of our life, to tempt us, and to attack us from our blind side. We must see evil because we can win out against evil. We can destroy evil before evil destroys us�if we see evil first. In our tradition of turning the other cheek, we must see what is about to strike us. To be smitten without knowing what strikes us means we live in ignorance. Consequently, when we live in ignorance we cannot forgive because we have no basis upon which to forgive. We must be honest about evil for evil is the great adversary seeking our destruction. When we see evil, we can then turn to God and reach out to Him. In the shadow of evil, we must reach out to God because He will give us power to overcome the evil we see.

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