Good and Evil are sometimes so close that we have a hard time knowing what to do in life. We can only seek and trust God to show us the way to go. A close friend's daughter is on a missionary visit to an African country. Obviously, she is exposed to many things she is not used to seeing in America. On her blog (click on this posting title above) she tells about little children with bowls or containers being all around the markets and other public places begging. The containers are used to hold the money they beg for on behalf of Islamic leaders and teachers to whom their parents have given them. The leaders exist on this money collected and if a child comes back to them with no money, they are severely beaten and not fed. My friend's daughter choses to give money to each child that asks. Her goodness overcomes the evil, in that the children will be saved from beatings and starvation. So it is in our lives in this World. We are constantly challenged as to how to react to things around us. We are in conflict to judge or not to judge, complain or not complain, help or not help, forgive or not forgive, sin or not sin, give or not give. This human predicament is only resolved through a close relationship with God in our daily living. He will guide us if we allow him to do so. This is our ultimate choice: to trust Him or not trust Him.
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