Libranos Del Mal <iPad>

We want to be protected from liars, but not from our own self-deception.

Libranos del mal is a cry for rescue from all three. But especially the third. Here is our great spiritual mistake: we spend our lives trying to build walls against the evil out there , while the evil in here (our own resentments, fears, and selfishness) runs the show. Libranos del Mal

And ask for deliverance from that .

Because until we are delivered from the evil within, no wall we build will ever be high enough to keep the evil out. We want to be protected from liars, but

You are not asking for a comfortable life. You are asking for a free one. You are admitting that you are in over your head, that the darkness is real, and that you cannot pull yourself out by your own bootstraps. Here is our great spiritual mistake: we spend

Deliver us from evil.

This is the one we refuse to look at. The capacity for cruelty inside your own heart. The grudge you nourish like a garden. The addiction you defend. The pride that masquerades as virtue. This is the evil Jesus pointed to when he said, “It’s not what goes into a person that defiles them, but what comes out.”