The problem of evil?

Jesus said “pray so that you might not be put into temptation” as the devil will try and lure people onto a downward spiral of sinning.

“Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light.”

The verse is from John 3:19. Fleeing from temptation can be challenging but God can help as He, and the teachings of the son, can become your moral compass. You could try thinking of the things you don’t have, but don’t want, when you see something you would like. It’s all too easy for us of the Western world to take things like clean running water and electricity for granted. We don’t really need cars when trains and busses are abundant and cheap to board, but we still manage to get our priorities wrong – oftentimes at the expense of other people.

"Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil..." - refer to Isaiah 5:20

Just remember that the word of God has more power than that of any man alive. Help those who are "lost sheep" to calibrate their moral compass for God, as oppose to that of a false idol such as a pop star or TV icon.

"The lord is my shepherd."

It may be the trendy thing to call for "tolerance and acceptance” but God has the standard of "righteousness and holiness!" Remember, we as Christians can love the sinner but not the sin.

The Philosopher Leibniz once implied that God had created the best of all possible worlds. Leibniz, however, did not just arrive at that conclusion without stating the a priori thought process that lead him to it! He took factors such as the notion of the "possible models" considered for the creation mentioned by Moses in Genesis - that would have been rejected under the auspices of infinite wisdom, omniscience and righteousness. Furthermore to the point, it could be argued that God is perfect and it would only be possible for God to produce anything bar another God. By the very definition of God, anything that God makes must be a dependant and contingent being; the concept of omnipotence never really meant that God can do anything, as it meant that God has complete power, and control, over what was the fruit of His creation.
However as a consequence of creation, or of finitude, there has to be evil. Now, The Biblical account of creation does not state that man created evil - but what is stated is that the divine evaluation of creation is that it was good. Some Eastern Philosophies (as well as a few Christian radicals) have viewed the forces of good and evil as opposites in a constant struggle against each other; it is akin to lightness and darkness & ying and yang. In a way, this concept views Satan as a deity thus causing Christianity to be viewed as a polytheistic religion (which it is not!!!!). You really have to ask what is goodness without evil. Evil is just the reduced concentration of goodness. Saint Augustine once argued that evil is just something that a "good creature can do" and that Adam was "created good, but not immutably good." Perhaps those who complain about the "evil in this world" can only do so once they accept that there is goodness (we may have different perceptions/ideas of what is "good", but God has the standard of righteousness) as well. To say evil is good is evil in itself, as declared by scripture. As Paul was writing the letter of Romans, he declared that:
"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose" (refer to Romans 8:28)
Even Paul, the apostle, declared that not all of the things that happen to us are good. By the very implication of this letter, it is normal for us to become upset every now and again. Yet all of these bad things exist for they work together for our good! Really, we should be saying that ultimately, as long as you correctly communicate with God and declare Jesus as the messiah, it is good things that happen to us.