When lightning strikes or breaks don’t seem to go your way, how do you make sense of these events. Chicago Cubs fans believe in the curse of the Billy Goat placed on the team by Billy Sianis after being ejected from a game in 1945. Meanwhile, Philadelphia sports fans claim the curse of William Penn has affected the success of their teams once the city of Philadelphia allowed One Liberty Place 1n 1987 to tower above the statue of William Penn, the former highest structure in town.
From a worldy perspective, there are 2 types of evil, natural and moral. Natural evil occurs when the natural forces in the universe cause havoc on earth in the form of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and tsunamis. Moral evil occurs when human beings exercise their free will to drink and drive, commit a crime or hold a grudge against someone. When bad breaks, unusual events or strange things occur, nature or human beings are to blame.
However. I have discovered there is another force at work, one that is supernatural. Sometimes God has allowed me to fail to humble me, teach me a lesson or steer me in a different direction like Acts 16:6. On the other hand, when a series of bad thing happen to you, it could also be a word curse like James 3:9-10, a hex placed on you by an enemy or in extreme cases you could be cursed by a witch or someone practicing voodoo. So the next time you have one of those Murphy Law kind of days, think about these 3 types of evil, ask God for discernment and pray that the Lord raises you up on eagle’s wings, Isaiah 40:30-31.
by Jay Mankus
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