Good Vs. Evil

By giving evil and good a name, we separate the reality that lays behind them.  We absolve all from the basic humanity and by extension, soul, of all creation.  What is good and what is evil becomes the stark question that can only be answered by the motive behind it.  Because, simply, good and evil doesn't exist without a force to create it.  When Lucifer sought the throne of God, he wasn't beguiled by an unseen force, carried upon a wave that stripped him of all reasoned thought.  No, sadly, what made Lucifer's actions "evil" was bound by his choice, and it's that very choice and the choices that each of us makes day by day that indicates "evil" and "good".  We choose each day how to live our lives, and those choices move us along the paths that could be determined "good" and "evil" by historians looking back, but each choice that a person makes seems good to him or her at the time, typically speaking.  Hitler thought he was in the right, for example.

We don't look at ourselves as inately evil, typically, yet what are the motives behind our daily choices - the little choices?  How do we hold up a measuring stick to those choices to determine the path we're on?  What GPS do we use to know exactly where we're at?  Do we use God and Satan as our measuring devices?  And, if so, how do we make sure our measuring is accurate?  What do we seek?  What motives lie behind the choices we make - when we choose something seemingly innocuous, do we know why?  Is it to please ourselves, or to further another design?

Yes, full on analysis sounds almost debilitating, oftentimes, yet I doubt we truly want to live our lives without truly knowing if what side we were on.  I must laugh silently to myself, for in truth, even as I wrote that, I realized that many of us want to do just that.  Assume we're "good" and move on without taking too hard a look, knowing that the choices we made today may not measure up to the perceived "good" we know we fail to live up to.  Yet, examples exist of doubt and self-preservation that led to a life held up apostlistically in the history books.  We must strive, small choice by small choice, to remedy ourselves first.