Have you ever watched a movie where the bad guy gets away?
You spend an hour or two watching the villain harass the protagonist, fully knowing that they will get theirs in the end.
Then as the end approaches the very unsettling feeling of dread washes over you as suddenly you realize that they get away. The bad guy gets away. The murderer escapes. The villain lives another day to torment someone else.
You want to know why it’s so unsettling?
Because most of us are instilled with the belief that good always wins.
We have been trained since birth that bad guys never win, and good guys always have the last word.
Evil is always conquered.
There has to be a reason that we walk around every day knowing that good always wins.
There has to be a reason that even though I have been walking through the hardest season of my life, I still know deep down in my heart that this isn’t how it ends. That this isn’t where it ends because evil does not win. And I think that we were created with this belief.
God created us in His image, and God is a God of justice.
He is the ultimate “good guy.”
Think about it.
He sent His Son to die on a cross as the atonement for our sins. Do you know what that means?
If we believe in Him… everything we have ever done and everything we will ever do… every mistake we make…knowingly and unknowingly… is paid for. It’s wiped away. It’s forgotten. There is no more record. Because He keeps no record of wrongs.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.” John 3:16
So why do we believe that good always wins?
Because everything that God has ever done has been proof that it does.
Because even if we suffer, there is hope.
Because even if we die, there is eternal life.
Because even if we lose a battle, He has won the war.
Because God is good.
And Good always wins.