Fighting entropy

Good must triumph over evil. I'm pretty sure you'll agree with me on this. It's kind of a fundamental idea that society bases its morality upon... let's keep that as our foundation.

The "why" of this is kind of redundant to explain, so let's talk about the "how."

There are a few sayings on this topic that I feel are quite relevant. Actually, they could even be called memes, because they express the same basic idea. You've probably heard them before:

"It's always darkest before the dawn."

"Everything will usually get worse before it gets better."

"It has to get messier before it gets cleaner."

And that last one is really true. No matter how many times I clean and organize my room, it's always a complete mess when I'm in the process of figuring out where I want things to stay.

On a less boring note, it's pretty much the same as in the typical action thriller with a clever hero doing his best to try and stay one step ahead of the villain. Inevitably something absolutely terrible happens that you think the hero cannot come back from, but in fact he has foreseen it, and even planned for it to happen so that his own clever ruse can overcome the villain's schemes and save the day for all good people everywhere.

But here's something a little stranger than fiction:

I find it fascinating that the two times Jesus was the most distressed - the only two times that scriptures say that he wept - were right before his greatest miracle, and his greatest triumph. Even though Jesus fully knew that he could raise his friend Lazarus from the dead - and even though he knew right down to his core that dying on the cross would result in life for all of the elect - Jesus wept. He was broken and undone. But miracle of miracles... what happened next was the dawn.

My point isn't that good will eventually come out of evil, and order will always follow chaos. No, my point is that in order for good to come out of evil and for order to follow chaos, people must actively fight evil and chaos.