Weeds and wheat are mingled in a field. It is a natural reality that every farmers face. Likewise the world is a mixture of good and evil, a reality that we encounter everyday.
There are two functions of evil – 1. It produces the fruit; and 2. It tempts and makes the good people to do evil. Jesus warns about the power of evil to inspire. This power to inspire is evident in the world as we see drug addicts add new members to their groups, the smugglers do increase, the terrorism is in progress, etc. It is easy to gather people for a bad thing than for doing something good. We may get many friends to have a party with hot drinks but very difficult to get somebody to go to the Eucharist.
Can we think the opposite way, i.e., influencing the evil by good? That was the mission of Jesus. He influenced and changed the evil minded human being into the children of God. It is the mission of the disciples, to inspire those who are evil minded with our goodness. Remember the words of Jesus that says “when someone beat you on one of your one cheek show the other”.
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