"Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." [1 Peter 5:8 (ASV)]
In the era that Saint Peter wrote his epistles to the earliest Christians, he used the image of a lion to describe how the adversary works against people who try to live in the fullness of God's love and peace.
The prowling of the lions of hate and evil are out there even when we are asleep in the quiet of our houses and well-guarded streets. But there are people who are more vulnerable than we are to the present when hatred and evil are being embodied and threaten all of us, but especially those they hate the most.
It is a time to wake up and do something about the lions who would devour the defenseless and to be on the side of God who created us all and who wants each one of us to live fearlessly and courageously, without being subject to violence and the threat of violence.
So we have out work cut out for us and each one of us must decide whose side we are on . . . the side of the defenseless and innocent or the side of the devouring lions.
We are not alone as long as we work together and trust that as ever, love and goodness always win out over hatred and evil.
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