Overcome Evil With Good

By Joyce Meyer


Do let yourself by overcome by evil, but overcome (master) evil with good.
-  Romans 12:21


     We overcome evil with good.  I believe this truth is one of the most powerful weapons we possess, and the best-kept secret.  God wants everyone to know it, but Satan keeps us so entrenched in our problems and person pain that few of us ever understand they dynamics of it.  We can get Satan back for the painful things he has brought into our lives by being good to others.  We overcome him (evil) by being good to other people.  Actually, it is God who overcomes Satan as we allow Him to work His good through us.  Satan wants to use our pain to destroy us, but we destroy his plan by doing the opposite of what he expects.
     Being good to someone else not only defeats Satan, it also releases joy in our own lives.  Historically, people who have been hurt by someone frequently experience depression.  I believe this is partially due to the fact that their attention is on their own pain instead of on what they can do to relieve someone else's pain.  God has not called us to "in-reach"; He has called us to "out-reach."  When we reach out to others, God reaches into our souls and heals us.  He is the only One who can heal the broken hearted and make the wounded better than new.