I have a few devotion books I try to read each day. Sometimes a few days creeps by between picking them up. Among these is a "A Year with C.S. Lewis".
As I read this evening, I began to think about the world we live in.
It would be easy to paint a picture of the world as being hopelessly evil.
With the advancement of technology we have an ever increasing knowledge of what is happening in any corner of the globe almost instantly. We know more of the evil that happens now more than ever before.
Let's not even mention the way the media sensationalizes every story to fit their agenda.
Having said that, here is my reading from today in my Lewis' devotional. This reading was accompanied my the heading/title The Real Test:
“Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
May we aim to see God moving in the midst of the most evil circumstance. Let us be quick to be relieved instead of wishing "that black was a little blacker".
In a world of much bad, there is much good to be found. Look for it. As you do, you will likely see God doing what He does best. Working out "all things" for good. Turning messes into miracles.
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