Darkness to Light Ronald Reagan’s tomb features this phrase: “I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.” We all want to believe that man is good. I suspect that most people do, anyway. Perhaps if the scales of justice weighed one person against another, some would surely be weighed and measured as good. Plenty of people with whom I’ve shared the gospel have thought so. They’ve tried to convince me that they are good people and that I needed to talk to the bad people. Yet, those of us well versed in the depravity of the heart know better. We know that none of us, not even one, is good, not even a little bit. But after recently studying a passage from Ephesians, it struck me that I don’t always live out this knowledge. Even after following Christ for about 17 years, I still whitewash my own depravity. I often imagine myself a decent fellow, the type of fellow wh