From all evil, Jesus, deliver us.
The question of evil has plagued human beings probably from the moment after the very first sin. People often ask why an all-good God would create evil or even allow evil to exist. First, God never did create evil. His creation is good. It is human beings who, by their own free will, fell into the corruption of good, into evil, and the world fell with them.
For evil is not a “thing.” It does not exist on its own. It is a corruption, a warping of something that is good. It is a parasite, living off something that is good. It is an absence rather than a presence, like darkness is the absence of light.
What is more, God only allows evil because He brings a greater good out of it. We may not see this happening, but God’s perspective is infinitely broader than ours. While the argument is too extensive to dig into in this post, we can be assured that while we, in our free will, often choose corruption and absence, the warping that is evil, we can trust God to be all-good, all-wise, and all-loving and to bring us out of that evil into Him if only we repent and cooperate with His grace.
From all sin, Jesus, deliver us.
Jesus does indeed deliver us from all sin, for He took our sins upon Himself and carried them straight to the Cross. Jesus suffered and died so that we might be forgiven of our sins. He took the covenant curses upon Himself, curses that we triggered when we broke the covenant of love that God made with us.
Remember that when we sin, we either damage or break the relationship with have with God (that’s one of the differences between venial and mortal sin). When Jesus delivers us from our sins, He restores our relationship with the Blessed Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So when we pray this petition, we ask for forgiveness and restoration, but we also ask for the grace to avoid sin in the future so that we can live with God in love.
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