Overcome Evil With Good

Bible Bites

Scott Beyer
12/07/21 - Bulletin

“Cursed is he who misleads a blind person on the road.”

And all the people shall say, “Amen”

(Deut. 27:18)

Weak people mock other people’s struggles. Read the news, and you will find it full of stories of people taking advantage of others because they can. Making fun of people’s struggles is taught early and often in every schoolyard across the country. Kids quickly learn that wearing glasses, awkwardness, being overweight, etc. leads to mocking almost immediately. Bullies abound.

People are people. Souls are souls. Be better than the culture. We should stand up for the mocked and downtrodden – Jesus did for us. Becoming more Christ-like means we must find ourselves standing up to the bullies and looking to help the disenfranchised.

“Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good.” (Rom 12:21)

There is a war going on between good and evil in this world, and it is being waged in the mundane battlefields of normal life. Small acts of kindness, love, faith, and glorification of God are arrows fired in an ongoing war for human souls. When we take tangible steps to help others, we are bringing Jesus into their lives by being His body.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore, you are to be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:46-48)

Our goal should be to be indiscriminate in our kindness and love. Our hope is to see and treat all people with the character that we first see in Jesus. When we are as willing to stand up to our friends when they are being bullies as we are to speak up against our enemies, then we are exhibiting true love. When we are as willing to be servant-hearted to those outside of Christ as we are to those in, then we are beginning to reach pinnacle of His character.

Be nice, be helpful, be patient, and be kind. Take the time to help little old ladies cross the street, hold the door as people run for the elevator, slow down to wave people across in the parking lot, and stop to listen to small children.

Make sure to give as much attention to those under your charge as you do to your superiors. Replace flattery with genuine praise. Be slow to speak and quick to listen. See the people who others ignore or abuse.

The world is a cold and unfair place – bring the warmth