WHEN I WAS IN SUNDAY SCHOOL, I had a teacher who stressed a point that has stayed with me all my life. Our class was at that wonderful age when "Why?" seemed to be our standard response to everything he said. Yet it never seemed to faze him.
Our genuine
heritage is
dominion over evil,
and we have the
ability to exercise
it in daily life.
One Sunday we had been questioning just why it was that bad things could happen to good people—accidents, poverty, illness, conflict. What was the cause of all the evil that seemed to be everywhere? We thought for sure we'd stumped him, but our teacher just smiled and said, "Why is always the wrong question." He went on to drive home the lesson that seeking to find a cause for evil of any kind does nothing to destroy it, but makes it seem more real to us by building it up in thought.
