Jesus conquers evil without cancelling it.

Published: July 26, 2020, 10 a.m.

If we want to understand who God is and how he works, we don’t need to climb up to him. Jesus brings heaven’s best secrets down to earth. He reveals God to us using ordinary, everyday things. This week we see how God executes justice in a world full of evil. While we might expect God to instantly eliminate evil from our world, he instead permits evil to exist. This surprising and unexpected strategy is not a concession to the work of our enemy, the devil. Rather, by allowing evil to advance seemingly unchecked, God uses evil’s own efforts against it and conquers our enemy once and for all.