What do we do about evil? And what kind of evil is this that our Lord talks about in today's readings? The evil we see in our land today is the very same kind of evil we see in the time of Jeremiah and in the time of Matthew. We see the evil of people trying to make a way for themselves, to mediate their own redemption, to do good on their own terms rather than God's terms. We see people working for their own profit rather than for the ood of God and what he has ordained. This is a tremendous evil. It seems that in the Bible the harder we try to work things out for ourselves the worse we do at it. So what do we do? What hope do we have? Look again at the end of our reading in Matthew. We humble ourselves before the Lord and allow him to do his work in us. He can then accomplish his will in and through us.
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