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Save from evil

for a devotional book for the year 2010:
life and kindness you have done for me, and your care has preserved my spirit.
Job 10, 12
Christ prays, I ask you not, that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from evil.
John 17, 15

History
The man had every reason to be an act of desperation. His parents had been driven from their village. The boy had grown up with their longing for the homeland as a refugee. At 16, he was for 18 months been in prison because he had thrown stones at the soldiers, who kept his country occupied. He carried scars from the time in prison. At 32 he was forced to watch as his parents' house, which they had meanwhile built was demolished by soldiers, while his mother shouted as the young soldiers and was hit with a rifle butt and his father a few days later died of a heart attack. His mother and siblings were left homeless. The debt for house construction and house demolition was immense. It was a fate as it had to suffer Job. But it was not just bad luck that had to suffer the family, it was evil. The man spoke not with anger but with despair over his shattered life. He wanted to die. The death was better than this life ...


How much was missing here, that he would give in to evil and to pursue an Rachetat?

Jesus' prayer in John's Gospel focuses on the situation: Evil is part of our world and our lives. We can close our eyes, we can leave to others who are more affected by or can we repay evil with evil. But we can also resist the injustice, even the thoughts of revenge, offer themselves. And it's good to know that we have God on our side here.

prayer

God help the man who has suffered so much harm! God help us, that we not accept evil and can not repay evil!

song (from the Protestant hymn book, page 373, verse 1):
Jesus, help to win, you presseth in. Prince of life,
See how the darkness,
how powerful their hellish army is not in vain
aufführet to me to be harmful.
Satan, sinnet on all sorts of intrigue,
how light it me, irritate and offend.
(Johann Heinrich Schröder, more than three hundred years, sealed)