Monday; February 26
The other afternoon I was driving home in the fog and
noticed that, while I could still see pretty well, my perception was negatively
affected. The diminished light made everything appear gray and I found it
harder to distinguish images. The fog covered the roadway in dampness and
the darkness was compounded so twilight came earlier. No, it wasn’t
pitch-black dark, but it wasn’t the safest condition for driving.
As I thought about the fog I got to reflecting on the world in which we
live. Often, when we think about good and evil, we envision a distinctness
between pure light and the dark, yet some of satan’s most dangerous weapons
involve shades of gray. Most of us can easily guard against absolute
wrong, but we get in trouble when we find ourselves dealing with “a little bit
of sin” or something that just isn’t quite right. The more we live in the
fogginess of spiritual or moral uncertainty, the easier it is for us to
stumble.
While the devil is a ma…