QUESTION No.1 - SUNDAY MAY 2026
What is Worse Than EVIL?
What runs through your imagination when you hear the word - EVIL?
Does evil have a face? A forked tongue? Does it rise like a toxic fog? Or stroll in like an uninvited guest?
"Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate."
– Psalm 34:21 (KJV)
I often considered evil a nameable thing. A monster of sorts just waiting for the chance to trespass against us.
But what exactly is evil, and what does it want?
When I began reading the Bible, the word “evil” simply didn’t register.
Like “sin”, the word evil had lost its edge. It had been pushed to the back of the drawer like a knife I never used anymore.
I knew then that I didn’t truly know evil.
A WORD ON THE WORD: The Hebrew word for EVIL is “RA” (pronounced “rah”). It speaks of disorder, chaos, a breaking into pieces, an agent of unraveling.
Evil hardens the heart. Makes it impenetrable. Dark. Incapable of self-reflection.
“…treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power."
- 2 Timothy 3:4-5 (NIV)
At its core, evil is the ACTIVE corruption of the good.
Not the “absence of good”, but the conscious destruction of trust. A betrayal.
Betrayal, lowest circle in Dante’s pit of hell, is reserved for those who deny God as good, or God as GOD.
"Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God."
- 3 John 1:11 (KJV)
But there is another kind of evil. Perhaps worse – the evil you never feel.
A passive evil. Like a spreading fungus, it happens without conscious thought.
Neither hot nor cold, just lukewarm. An agent of indifference and chaos.
“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
- Revelation 3:16 (KJV)
And yet, the tiniest ray of light can destroy the darkness.
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
- Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV)
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BoBQ Vol. 6 pg. 11-12