No Evil Too Great

"No evil is too great for Him. No heart is too hard."

WE THINK there are forms of evil that God cannot overcome. That in the depths of evil, there are those who cannot be saved, that God cannot and will not go there. There is no truth to this. It says God hardened Pharaoh’s heart. This means He could also have softened it. The psalm says He turns the hearts of kings. God honors the will of man. He gave us the choice between good and evil, but seeing some have chosen evil, He will not let that choice destroy His plans for individuals. Not that He sets some people aside, consigning them to evil. This is our perspective. But God’s is salvation. When we were at our worst, He sent Jesus, so for those who stand in the way of His goodness to men, He seeks their rescue.

Think of it this way. My mother has always said when praying for your neighborhood, you cannot call down evil upon people. You cannot pray a business go bankrupt and the people who work there are out of a job. She once prayed a bar out of business by blessing those inside with better circumstances. We are called to encourage people, to turn their lives toward the light, and that begins with their homes and jobs and children.

God will never yank one man away from His grace, gladly handing him over to the devil, for any reason. He will not destroy the one to save some. But will save all.

There are simply too many testimonies of men and women who people gave up to hell, then God stepped in and saved them. Minister Jesse Duplantis is one example. Minister Todd White is another and no one is bolder than he is to witness to passersby. There are those saved in their last breath who we will find in heaven and rejoice. No evil is too great for Him. No heart is too hard.

But for Judas, there was no rescue, and yet, still, see that Jesus mourns him.

He has no hate. God is love. He regrets the effects of His death toward no one. Which makes our hatred of one another, stupid and petty. He is the solution to every trouble on this earth. Every single one. And those of us united to Him are responsible for our thoughts about others and the resulting actions. With emphasis in this on our TALKING. We must renew our minds to think like love and speak like love. There should be no struggle to love. We don’t seek the love of God through human efforts. It is not attained by our works. We cannot force ourselves to love. It is a place of vision only He can give. The desire to see it comes from Him as well.

We, like the devil, hold onto our hatred. We must let go for it comes between us, and I want nothing between the Savior and I. Not the devil or devils, not my point-of-view of people, not any misunderstandings of God’s nature, all of which He can renew and heal. I won’t let my blame of the devil become a sticking point. We do this too much, when what we’re meditating on, our personal pain and prejudices, isn’t an actual devil but our emotions and misperceptions. These the Spirit of God desires to heal. The Holy Spirit is not outside of our mind, but we must invite Him in and surrender ourselves to His will. It is when we submit to God that we resist evil. Not because we are loud and insistent but because He is in it.

And what of the evil we see around us? Well, what would happen if we’d pray? If we’d pray correctly. Meaning, we pray the Father’s heart and not our will. I may want them lost in the desert somewhere, but that isn’t Jesus’ will. He wants them to see Him and accept Him, to consent to change. He wants me to consent to change. Then I will love them, and they will turn from evil to His forgiveness and God will rejoice. That’s the bottom line. Is what I’m doing, is my attitude, and sometimes, my desire to give up, giving God joy?

He wants me with Him. It’s why He rose from the dead, so we could be together. He defeated death, He un-enemied the devil, He poured out all the goodness of God’s eternal life, and now asks me to trust Him with bad people and bad things and my own human nature. Even greater, He asks me to do good, to love like He does so that the nature of God that He’s enabled me with, the Spirit of God in me, will be most effective in the atmosphere He creates around me.

“We thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, because he is so good to us. He is such a very, very kind Father, and only he himself can really comfort us. He comforts us during all things that cause trouble and pain for us. So then, as a result, we ourselves can comfort other people who have any kind of trouble or pain. We can comfort them because God himself has comforted us. We have very much trouble and pain, as Christ did. We have very much trouble and pain because we are his. But, in the same way, we know also how very much Christ comforts us.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-5 EasyEnglish)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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