Lawful Manifestations
"For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way." (2 Thessalonians 2:7 NKJV) Someone had rightly presume every human action, without the Spirit of God, as unpredictably worse than that of the devil. The sense in the statement is basically the expression of the greater danger in an indiscernible evil, compared to an unpretentious one. In any case, only the grace of God makes a distinctive sense out of human character. With the influence of God's Spirit in man, and irrespective of the mystery of lawlessness, life is bound to keep a logical path of righteousness.