Friday, November 8 (October 26), 2024
Philip. 3:8-19; Lk. 7:31-35

“Whereunto shall I liken the men of this generation” ─ that is, unbelievers?  [Lk.7:31] If the Lord Himself seems to be uncertain about this question, so much more reason we have to wonder about the spirit of disbelief in people.

Is it at all possible to go dead against overwhelming evidence?  Yet the unbelievers do just that.  No wonder that Satan is doing the same: his very name means the adversary.  As the adversary of truth and goodness, he knows very well that God exists, that God will judge and condemn him, that doom is awaiting him, ─ and still persists in his adversity for no other reason than evil itself, thus making his own fate yet more certain.

Isn’t it the same militant spirit of godlessness which drives the unbelievers?  At any rate, given our knowledge of a human soul and her energies, given the self-evident foundations of faith, disbelief is plainly inexplicable ─ just as inexplicable as the voluntary submission of a sinner to his sin when he know for sure that the sin is ruining him.

And yet another stunning dilemma: it is only the unbelievers and possessed by passions who deny the existence of Satan and evil spirits!  Their most devote supporters, as one would expect them to be, denounce them altogether.  Those who are in the dark love darkness: unbelievers have set up the mock-science of the human soul which pretends to explain our moral, spiritual world in material terms, free from involvement and influence of the spirits of evil.

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