There was a lot of truth and much provoking food for thought which I am mulling over. I do not understand the origin of evil, how exactly it manifests or why it continues to exist but I am certain of how it is defeated.
“Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends” –Jesus (Gospel of John)
“When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards” –C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
“There is a mysterious alchemy whereby the victim becomes the victor… I know that good people can deliberately allow themselves to be pierced by the evil of others –to be broken thereby yet somehow not broken – to even be killed in some sense and yet still survive and not succumb” –M. Scott Peck (People of the Lie)
“If he could only have understood the precise and terrible power of that sacrifice, he would not, perhaps, have dared to touch your blood…” –J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
As outrageously simple as it sounds, love is the way to vanquish evil. Admittedly, love becomes more complicated when trying to practice it.
So I choose to follow the lead of the Author of love, God, who is the Creator of the great romance. By knowing and loving Him more, I will love others and myself more…and evil will be defeated.
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” –Paul the apostle (Letter to the Romans)
Love is eternal, lies are not.
