Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Dallas Willard Daily Devotional- September 01, 2020

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We have the ability to make the world better

I am of the considered opinion that there is no desirable alternative to a life that includes a certain amount of pain, struggle, disappointment, and suffering in general for human beings. But I am not trying to say, in the words of the good Pangloss, a character in Voltaire's Candide (1759): "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Far from it! However, I am willing to say that it could be the best of all possible worlds for human life, were it not for human perverseness and stupidity.

We as human beings have a long way to go. But no good will come of either blaming God for our ills or sitting around waiting for God to do what we ought to have the sense and ambition enough to accomplish for ourselves. God has put the natural abilities and means at our disposal with which to make this world a decent and pleasant place to live. This is precisely the reason why he will hold us responsible for failing at the task. And all those who charge God with the evil of this world lay themselves open to the charge of insincerity unless they are doing all within their power to dispel the evil of this world.

From The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus. Copyright © 2015 by Dallas Willard. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

 
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