Don't be overwhelmed by evil

Rockets are falling in Israel. Armored divisions are patrolling in Lebanon. Chaos reigns in Baghdad. Headlines boast death, killing, threats and conflict running rife these days. To keep our spiritual equanimity intact, we must not be impressed!

If you’ve ever watched a movie that was depressing, filled with despair, despondency, and heaviness, you might have left the movie theater feeling heavy and despondent yourself. The same effect can happen if we soak in negative world news everyday without keeping our thought spiritually enlightened.

Each of us has to take responsibility for our state of thought and not let it fall to a low level. And we can keep it inspired when we stay convinced of spiritual reality.

The material world is a temporal place that passes away in time. The events of planet earth are not the definitive statement for all time to come. There is a greater spiritual reality that supersedes and endures beyond any worldly experience. It’s called life in Spirit, and this life is eternal, wholly good, and forever intact.

In the face of evil, we can proclaim the omnipresence of good. We can know God’s allness and goodness, and the powerlessness of evil to destroy anything truly good.

As we consciously know the spiritual truth more than we entertain error, we will not be overwhelmed by evil. We will keep our spiritual perspective intact, and not let our thinking fall into the metaphysical doldrums.

God is all. God is good. God is power, and evil is not power. With this truth overwhelming our sense of things, we will see hope and promise of healing rather than darkness and bleakness.