It was a different time with vastly different ways of looking
at things. In the late 1930s a radio program premiered called “The Shadow”. The
tag question for the series was, "who knows what evil lurks in the heart
of man"? Our understanding of life these
days is convoluted. The question of evil
is rarely a topic of conversation. Yet evil has so many manifestations all
around us: violence, hatred, racism, abuse and the list goes on.
Three significant mass shootings happened in the past few
days (crowding off the pages the relatively minor shooting in Southaven, Mississippi). The responses to how to handle such manifestations of evil are
fully in play in the media and on social media.
What will probably not make those reports is the only true
solution: heart change. The powerful intervention by the Creator of the human
heart, whose self-sacrificial death has made available the power of God for
heart change, is the only hope for the evil that confronts us. The love of Christ constrains us and we
possess a power that is able to love every victim of every race from every
country and to love those whose brokenness pulled the trigger. The only power sufficient to deal with the
horror that is being revealed is not found in a ballot box or legislative
action: it is via the activity of a life changing and living Christ who works through
his disciples.
