daily word - conviction of the best

A poet described a world in which the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity. Would you want to live in such a world? Do you? Do you see the wicked doing evil with great enthusiasm? Do you think you would be able to persuade them to turn it down? The only half of the equation that you are able to influence is your own. Do you do good with the same degree of fervor that the evil do evil? They may grow weary of sin on their own. In the meanwhile, do not resent the fact that you are on the side of righteousness, or forget that your actions will bear fruit for eternity. Do not grow weary in well-doing.