Evil can’t win ultimately because…

…it’s too much of a burden.

When you look around and it all seems hopeless, take heart. It’s not. The world it really good at presenting a picture designed to suck the life out of you.

Each day I pull up news headlines. I go through them rather quickly and what I see is what I expect — mostly bad news. There are stories of corruption, violence, death, anger, political power struggles, greed, disease, natural disaster, abuse, manipulation, outright lies, and more. And each headline is no longer shocking to me. That doesn’t mean these headlines are normal. They aren’t. They are abnormal to their core. They represent not just something different or alternative to what is good — but rather the exact opposite of what is good.

I don’t get down though on seeing these things. I used to. But not any more. I look at these headlines for a couple of reasons. 1. to be reminded of the reality of evil and brokenness in the world. I can’t live in la-la fantasy land. There is much brokenness and there are people, systems, and institutions that create more brokenness — sometimes on purpose. 2. I look forward to the day when such things will no longer exist. It is a hopeful expectation that I have that someday I will pull up the headlines and the ways of the world will have ended. 3. These stories are motivation to me to keep going. To just keep doing what I am called to do in spite of the evil and brokenness.

No matter what, here’s what I know — evil cannot ultimately prevail. It’s…