I’m writing about the worst tendencies in human nature. When I have time, I watch videos online about the worst in human nature. When I can, I watch documentaries and I often see the worst in human nature. Sometimes, I start to wonder if in the deepest parts of our bases nature we truly are just animalistic. Could we just devolve?
After all, everyone gets angry sometimes. My husband told me about losing his cool just yesterday when he was feeling out of sorts. I tend to yell and get angry whenever I have too much pressure on my head. When too many people get together in the wrong circumstances, they can take on a mob mentality and do absolutely horrible atrocities even when they came together in celebration.
I think some Christians want to believe that we are solely good in our nature, but I like to believe that it isn’t that simple. After all we are created in God’s image. God created this entire universe that includes both good and evil, pain and pleasure, happiness and sorrow. There’s a point where He and I hope we can transcend the dualities, but until I get to that point, I think I have to be mindful that I am a creature of dualities. I am capable of all of it. I am both male and female (a little more female physically). I am both good and evil. I am all and nothing. I am made in God’s image.
And maybe that’s the answer. Instead of devolving into an animalistic heathen, I should be hoping to evolve into something more. Instead of seeing the worst that humanity can do, maybe I should have hope for what humanity has the possibility to create. Yes, there’s lots of injustice, evil, and sorrow in the world, but there’s also so much possibility. As long as I am, as long as God is, then there’s always room for hope and evolution.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
