Aug 20th, 2020: Gettin Used to Evil is a Trap
The heatwave is on. The temperature, where we are, reached 34°C Tuesday afternoon. I have friends and family who told me it had been 100°F and more in California and Texas last week. Some people are crazy about the heat. I think I have become too Canadian when it comes to hot weather. It slows me down because I have got used to the cold climate in Canada.
We get used to things as time goes by. Sometimes it is good, and sometimes it is not. We used to the idea that politicians will lie and abuse their power. Nowadays, we don't have to look very long and hard to see examples of that. We might make jokes about them, but we don't speak up. Sometimes we cast our votes as if our moral conviction has nothing to do with it. I am not sure we get used to things, or we just become indifferent toward what is evil.
We get used to the fact that the laws in our nations can be immoral, and we resign to that reality. We complain among ourselves but do very little to voice our concerns. Maybe we are afraid of the radicals who wait for the opportunity to call us names. What used to be right and noble can be perceived as narrow mindedness and backward understanding of the world. The problem is the forward-thinking does not grant us much comfort and hope.
We get used to hunger for power. We are more fascinated by that than fighting for what is the truth. The longing for power might have created a spiritual blind spot. The attraction to power is real if we feel the oppression. Fighting against what is evil is critical, but we cannot do that by losing our discernment between godliness and ungodliness.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke (in a letter addressed to Thomas Mercer).
Philippians 1: 9-10
"And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,"
