Every sin is simply something good being misused. Food is for our good and we are to eat, gluttony is the misuse of what was meant to be good. Sex is a gift from God provided as both a means to create unity between husband and wife as well as for procreation. Yet we see what it has become -a complete perversion of God’s intent.
Wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of some good in the wrong way.
C.S. Lewis wrote:
“You can be good for the mere sake of goodness: you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong -only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him. In other words badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness.”
Dr Snyder emphasized that “Evil, is a parasite, not an original thing.” The directness of that statement can be startling, but it most certainly nails down the nature of evilness.
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedness is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God” – C.S. Lewis
Satan is not the opposite of God in his nature. He is not the evil god but merely a created being who once belonged to the heavenly realm. He threw away that glory and attempted to become glorious himself. He failed miserably. By transforming himself into the most wicked of all created things.
Out calling of God on our lives and His expectations for how we are to live can be read in Galatians 5: 13-17
“For you, brothers and sisters were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh but through love be servants to one another. For the who,e law is fulfilled in one word, in this: ‘You shall live your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things you desire.”
From Pity to Praise 