Darkness can not drive out the light. If you have a sunny day outside, you can not take a flashlight-like device which shines darkness and shine it to make things disappear into a patch of night. Darkness is not something you can create by adding anything. You can only make darkness by taking away the light.
The heart of man is the same. Everyone's heart has darkness in it. We have all sinned. We all have done evil. We all have deceitful hearts which want their own way. Some are darker than others but we all possess that darkness to some degree.
There is only one cure for the darkness in our hearts and that is the light of God. Everywhere there is evil, the only permanent cure is found in Jesus Christ who said in John 8:12 "...I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
Every dark act of every individual in the world starts with the heart. Lust dwells in the heart of man. Hate dwells in the heart of man. Every kind of evil dwells in the heart of man. "For out of the heart come evil thoughts--murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander." Matthew 15:19
You can take away guns, take people to court and even put them behind bars but the darkness will still abide in their hearts. The only way to cure the evil actions of people is to cure their heart by driving out the darkness of evil. Only Jesus Christ can change a heart. Only Jesus is the cure because only he is the light of the world.
Until we all recognize Jesus as the light of the world, we will always have the darkness of evil in the world.
Photo Credit: When Darkness Falls by Ghetu Daniel
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