When Jesus taught His disciples how to pray, His last petition was,
"Deliver us from evil." In a time when wars and rumors of wars abound, His
sentiment is echoed countless times. Yet we tend to view evil as the
characters of the X-Files view truth: it is "out there." The problem,
friend, is that evil is not just "out there." It is also "in here." A
universal epidemic exists, and it is one of evil in the heart. Almost just
as universal is the human tendency to deny this. I have never defended the
existence of God at a university campus without being asked about the
question of evil in the world, yet only on one occasion have I been asked
how to cope with the evil within. And this is where the real issue lies.
Ravi Zacharias, Slice of Infinity
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