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Evil activities evil inside me6/20/2023 ![]() The key to overcoming the activity and influence of evil in your life and your world, of course, is to recognize it. Going back centuries further, you can read Thomas Brook’s Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices-an astonishingly insightful book (Thank you to Tim Keller for the reference). It’s a book that has not lost its punch seven and a half decades after its publication. Lewis, of course, treated the subject of the presence of evil in the world masterfully in the Screwtape Letters, written during the ravages of the second world war. Because, of course, there is.Įven writers like Steven Pressfield, who don’t profess a Christian faith, acknowledge that there’s a force in the universe that works against good when it comes to creating enduring art.Ĭ.S. It’s like there’s a virus in the system that we just can’t seem to shake. The scripture’s understanding of the battle between good and evil began to explain a good deal of what I was feeling inside of me as a leader, but also around me in relationships, in culture, and even, sometimes, in the church.Īgain… please don’t hear extremism in what I am saying. But even if you’re skeptical about evil, you might also have noticed that we do live in a strange world, with headlines that inevitably depress, good leaders that get derailed, again and again, people that struggle against each other and against themselves. The greatest mistake you can make with evil is to overestimate or underestimate its influence. And Jesus himself acted as though evil was very real. ![]() At least that’s what the scriptures claim. And in some way, it’s probably influencing your thought life, ministry, and family right now. It doesn’t have ultimate power, but it also isn’t powerless. In a similar way, the greatest mistake I believe you can make with evil is to overestimate or underestimate its influence. In the case of the latter, every time the toast burns or something doesn’t go their way, Satan is behind it and it’s time for an exorcism. There are some Christian leaders who never talk about Satan and others who talk incessantly about him. The challenge, I think, lies at the extremes. Talking about the work of the enemy is not an easy task. ![]() And all of us a sudden what I read on the pages of scripture about a battle between Good and Evil started to feel like last Tuesday. And most people who talked about evil today were, well, a little off-balance or just didn’t understand science well enough. Well, that’s kind of what I used to think too.Īs a young Christian, I believed that what the scriptures taught about evil was accurate, but accurate in a this happened thousands of years ago kind of way. Only the crazy people believe in evil and an actual Enemy, right?
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