The Question of Good and Evil

There’s a question I’ve been wondering lately; the question of evil and good. The question of right and wrong. There can be many comparisons that man has chosen to consider when a positive and a negative, a side and another are put together. To think that the opposite of good is evil and the question of how God is always good. Also to know that it is a fact that there is evil in this world. The question is how the enemy, Satan the devil is running it.

How else can we think of this?

The comparison that evil is in this hand and good on the other, and Satan on this side and God on this side, is thinking that they are of the same power level and that’s not true. With magnificent power and authority, beauty and wonder, honour and glory, the holy God can and should never be compared or thought to have an opposition such as Satan, the angel he created but chose his own.

Think of it this way, a father has many different children and one of them goes on his way, rebelling. No father will keep a son against established laws and norms and standards of operations of a family. There can never be such a happening in history where a king entertains a servant who chooses rebellion either. 

And while a son can be forgiven, a servant can never be. And that’s how Adam receives a promise of salvation and Satan is cast out. A servant who rebels and pushes or advises others to do the same, that’s an enemy, no forgiveness will do. And keeping such a servant in the kingdom is giving authority to your doom.

And while a son receives a punishment like dethronement, banishment or removal from duty, no servant bringing disorder in a kingdom has ever been forgiven in the history of man. What about in God’s Kingdom? How can it be tolerated? It can never be. And this is how A kingdom divided, shall not stand. God, being the holy God, loving and forgiving but rebellion like treason in world kingdoms, is the end of the line once attempted nothing goes back to normal. 

And while a son can be forgiven, a servant can never be.

Think….

What we are missing is the point of everything when you bring the question of light and darkness you bring it into the space, time and matter realm. When it’s night it’s dark when it’s day, light. But God is operating out of it. Time, matter and space do not bind God their creator. How can you create a watch and be a servant of it!? Never.

God the supreme one, the mighty one, with eternity and endless; one who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient has everything within and is within everything.

And as the Word says on this Question

• The Bible portrays God as loving, just, merciful, and powerful. Some verses that support these characteristics include 
• John 3:16 (“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”), 
• Romans 2:6-8 (“God ‘will repay each person according to what they have done.‘ To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honour and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.”), 
• Psalm 103:8 (“The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.“), 
• Jeremiah 32:17 (“Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.”).
• In Genesis, God is the creator of the universe and everything in it (Genesis 1:1-31).
• The Bible describes God as the protector and provider for his people (Psalm 23:1-6).
• In Exodus, God reveals himself to Moses as “I am who I am” and delivers the Israelites from slavery in Egypt (Exodus 3:14-17).
• The writers of the New Testament refer to Jesus as the Son of God and the Saviour of the world (John 3:16).
• The Bible teaches that God is one, but exists in three persons as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).
• The attributes of God include love, mercy, justice, and holiness (Psalm 103:8-18).

When Holiness is the Key and Only Question.

I wondered why God is written as One who is slow to anger, One who is merciful and One who is abounding in love. At first, it was just a clear-cut answer, because He is. But you read in the book of Exodus, how he dealt with the disobeying families (before and after the Mountain encounter with Moses for the commandments and laws) you find a better and the truth. As much as God is Holy and nothing unholy is found in Him, His standards are Holy that a man born unto woman after Adam and Eve can never attain.

And that’s how His mercies and abounding love and grace keep us and seek us out and keep on pursuing us like the Israelites from Jacob to that day Jesus ascends back to heaven (as from then the Spirit was poured and revealed to all who believe both Gentiles and Jews). We are still in this world after Adam, but with the coming of Jesus, He reminds us not only His love and grace and mercies are forever but also He is if we choose to abide in Him and Him in Us. The Only and Holy One invites us to walk a walk with standards we never thought we could ever attain. A walk with and in God through Jesus, God revealed in fresh.

A final thought on the Question of Good and Evil

Read the Word, the Bible, from Genesis to Judges and beyond to Samuel, Kings to, Psalms, Isaiah to Malachi. You will learn many things. In the book of Genesis, God speaks creation to life (Genesis 1). The book of Judges writes about how God saves over and over a rebelling nation but His own and only child Israel. In the book of Samuel God, ask David, who thought through Nathan that it was better to build the Holy One a HOME (2 Sam 7).

Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’
2 Samuel 7:7

The great God, mighty and Holy, keeps choosing and saving a rebellious son repeatedly for that is what a son is worth, a priceless love there is, with a home or not. It is in the Gospels and beyond that you learn something new. A son can be loved and a father can love. But a son travelling miles to meet a father is not what family is all about. God reaches out and bridges the gap in between, Him living within the son, and the son within the father.

Since God is everything and everywhere. You can’t just put God in this measurement that God is this alone. As powerful as He is, He is the Holy One. With that, He chastises and reminds, and it is only a son who fathoms the love of a father, who understands that when two agree to go on a journey together, the one who fails to keep the Word (while agreed to do so before), needs a reminder God is He that alone is everything and everything is within himself.

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