Resisting Evil

 The following is from Handley Moule's book The Sacred Seasons:

Be thou not conquered by the evil, but conquer, in the good, the evil--Romans 12:21

"'The good' of this sentence of Paul's is no vague and abstract thing; it is 'the gift of God' (Rom. 6:28); it is the life eternal found and possessed in union with Christ, our Righteousness, our Sanctification, our Redemption.  Practically, it is 'not It, but He.'  

"The Roman convert who should find it more than possible to meet his enemy with love, to do him positive good in his need, with a conquering simplicity of intention, was to do so not so much by an internal conflict between his 'better self' and his worse, as by the living Power of Christ received in his whole being; by 'abiding in Him.'"