God is the source of goodness. When present, we see what goodness actually looks like; apart from him there is no goodness. When absent, we are overwhelmed with evil and begin to lose sight of what goodness originally looked like. That's why when we are willingly away from Him, we begin with compromise and follow it down the seemingly harmless country road until we are caught speeding on the more dangerous freeway of regret. It is then that we understand that we cannot have goodness apart from the one that is truly good. Realizing this, we take the next exit, make a U-turn, and drive back into the arms of He who never wanted us to go in the first place, only to once again, find ourselves forcefully wiggling out of his arms, hopping into our car, and chasing after His absence until finally, through experiencing what His absence feels like and having this awful taste linger in our mouths for a while, we are craving for His goodness all over again.
-burton 261E
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Indeed.
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