Mike enjoyed his job as a janitor at the small Christian high school and being around the boys on the school’s championship basketball team.
One evening, as the boys’ practice was almost over and Mike waited for them to leave, he began to read his pocket Bible. On his way out of the gym, one boy asked him what he was reading.
“Book of Revelation. Our Sunday school class is just starting to study it,” Mike said.
“How can you understand that? Even our Bible teacher says it’s weird.”
“Well, I’ll admit it can be confusing,” Mike replied, “but I know in the end the good guys win.”
That saying is probably from old Western movies, where the hero was the good guy and the villain was the bad guy. Of course, the heroes were right and decent in the films, and the villains were wrong and evil. It was a matter of black and white. As the saying goes, “At least in the movies, the good guys always win.”
Unfortunately, it’s not so easy today to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad. Choices aren’t that clear, and instead of black and white, standards seem to be mostly gray. It sometimes seems as if wrong and right don’t differ.
Yet we know a difference exists with God. God’s standards are solid and real and will remain so. That’s a truth that can provide us with continuing confidence as we serve Him in a world that seems only gray. And in the end, as Mike put it, “The good guys win.”
Take comfort in knowing good will win in the end.
Anne Adams is a retired church staffer living in Athens, Texas, where she writes a historical column for the local newspaper. Her book Brittany, Child of Joy, tells about her mentally disabled daughter and was published in 1986 by Broadman. She has taught junior college history and has published in Christian and secular publications for forty years.