Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21 NIV)
Occasionally, you can feel like evil is coming against you. I don't about you but when that happens to me I can have the tendency to want to fight back. I feel like it was unfair & something needs to be done about it. Today I was reminded of the soloution. The real way to fight back is to fight back against evil by doing good, showing Christs love, & living the life He has called us to live. If we fall into acting like the people or things coming against us, we fail in our calling to demonstrate Christ. As I think back to the story of Christs crucifixion & all of the evil that came against Him that day, He gave us the example to follow by showing love to the very people who brought the evil & brutality against Him. We didn't deserve His love but He gave it to us anyway. People sometimes will not deserve our love but we're called to do it anyway. It's hard today. There's lots of evil in the world but Gods love is stronger & Hes already overcome the evil. That fight has already been won. So God has given us the key to victory, now it's just up to us to follow the example.
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