Good and evil - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

You will be like God, knowing good and evil.Christ Jesus did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation.
Genesis 3:5; Philipper 2:5-7

Good and evil
In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve lived in perfect harmony with their Creator. But Satan led them astray with his lies and instilled doubt in them as to God's love. As a result the first human beings destroyed the bond that linked them with God through disobedience.

Their happy relationship was by no means replaced by the independence they sought, as the serpent had persuaded them. On the contrary, the couple came under the bondage of sin with all its consequences. They ate of the forbidden fruit and learned from experience what good and evil meant: obedience and disobedience, love and hatred, life and death. The distressing thing was that under the bondage of sin they were incapable of doing good and avoiding evil.

Being independent of God, man himself now seeks to establish what is good and evil. Moralists, philosophers and religious thinkers try to do so in vain: apart from God they cannot find absolutely valid and generally accepted standards. We need a personal, living relationship with God through the Lord Jesus Christ, otherwise we cannot know what is truly good; we have no power to do so.

God's revealed will is good. Doing His will is doing good. We find a complete knowledge of good in the Person of Jesus Christ, as is described in the Bible. And the power to do good is not to be found in us, but in God.

Today's reading: Judges 6:1-13 · 2 Corinthians 5:10-21