June 5, 2010 – Catechism 309-314

There is evil in the world.  We see it everyday.  The mystery of why, we can try to explain, but I don’t think either our logic or reason will ever fully convince our hearts of its necessity.  Especially when it is an evil that is very close to us.  It is only something that we can try to understand and accept through faith. 

We can have the confidence that there is no evil too big that God can not bring good from it.  A little preview of Joseph’s story for us is this section of the Catechism.  The knowledge that god brings about good from evil should give us a great confidence in our lives, but as it says that does not make any evil a good.  The way I read that it says that God make may make an end is good, but we may never use the end justifies the means when the means are evil.  We are not God.