Weekly Meditations

Just a couple of quick thoughts concerning the presents of evil and the price of victimization of the innocent. Just recently I was talking with an individual on a topic which seems to hold cultural and time relevant acceptance by the majority of people these days. The answer to a request for a qualification of the position this person held was, “When this happens it happens by choice and there is no victim other than the person who is making the choice. “This response actually held some validity. It reminded me of the book: De Profundis” By the Noted yet exceptionally and perversely promiscuous writer, Oscar Wilde. This book was open next to the dead body of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe of Japan when he was found having committed suicide. Under lined in the book was this excerpt which is in paraphrased form [As terrible the things I have done to others worse are the things I have done to myself.] Prime Minister Konoe responsible for the death of countless persons during WWII, did only recognize his victimization of others until after the fact and although his was not the “trigger finger” his was the responsibility. Back to Oscar Wilde, one would have to read his book to realize that in part some descriptions or the character involved was a description of himself and the debauched life he had led and the results of living the life of an anarchistic and self-described lifestyle in the “Greek Pederastic tradition”. In fact, Wilde became so perversely outspoken and shocking in his words and actions that he was eventually convicted of “gross indecency” and sentenced to two years of hard labor.
This is a long story which most probably know so to elaborate may be irrelevant to the point. The point being: One can live the pretended life of a “Dorian Gray” with everything appearing as though what one thinks, does, or supports has little or no effect on themselves or others. But sooner or later all, admittedly or not, will come to the place of self-examination and with that submit to the truth, which is “worse was that that I have done to Myself”. One might say there are those who will never come to that place in their life. Life defined must be recognized as being that of an eternal being. So, all will recognize and examine these things sooner or later. How do I qualify these thoughts. Read:
Joh 4:28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
Joh 4:29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
There is One who all will face as either, eternally saved beings, or as eternally damned beings. These will answer to, and that One will know all things that ever these have done and these will answer to that One. That One being by his own words to the Samaritan woman in her reference to a Messiah Joh 4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
And one day, yes one day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, Jesus Christ is Lord!
With that and to conclude. There is no such thing as victimless evil. Nor is there anything such as a right to choose without there being consequences. And the sad part which the belligerent mind does not realize is this:[As terrible the things I have done to others worse are the things I have done to myself.]
David