Goodness has already risen to set men upon a true course of overcoming

Day 135

Everywhere I look, and seemingly everything I read, there appears to be men devaluing other men: to point out weakness; skin color and its inherent harm; wrong thinking based on social class and wealth; the incapability of parents to raise their children without state assistance; and so much more. It is a natural bias that men would conquer men intellectually, emotionally, financially, and physically. It is the thought that the inherent goodness of man is within a few, and their right, therefore, to control another’s behavior. All is a falsehood manifested by the enemy.

Yet I know that goodness has overcome all; that what appears to be the moral decay of man is but a minor downturn along the way in man’s redemption to his full potential as a child of God. God, you have set man upon a path of wholeness, and that path, even with difficulty, will ultimately lead to its redemptive goal: that of binding man to God in an awareness that has its full completion. In my times of weakness, where I see little that inspires me, may I go deeper to see the truth: that what I see is but for a moment, and that the love between God and man is foundational, everlasting, and supreme over all the enemy would have men believe.

And therein is the greater truth: that I will not rise to defend goodness, but that Goodness has already risen to set men upon a true course of overcoming. Men will rise instead, and within their paths will express the truth – that the enemy has already been overcome, and that, as you have said, the love between us has overcome all. Love will have its victory when men ultimately believe that love is all powerful, all seeing, all wise; that it, and it alone, is the path forward for men to grow in prosperity, freedom, and wisdom. Men will rise, as they always have, and will overcome. Goodness will have its victory.

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“Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel – all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.” – 1 Kings 19.18