This is how evil gets us. Our sense of scarcity is spoken to and enlisted in the battle for a better life. Our discouragement gets deployed in the service of evil’s schemes to keep humanity defeated. Our longings and loves get exploited in an army that annexes someone else’s power and prestige. We keep believing that supporting this pastor or that politician or buying another product will finally give us the life of freedom and joy they all promised, but it never happens.
