Society all around us is fractured,
some would say failing. Our husbands and fathers have become lazy
buffoons ripe for parody and mockery. Our wives and mothers are
overworked, cynical and depressed; unwilling to fully trust their men
and doubtful that they should at all. Our children and teens are
jaded, rebellious, narcissistic, and corrupt; unable or unwilling to
see past their smart-phones or the opinions of their peers. And in
between them all we have an army of the young and unwed, obsessed
with themselves and their desires, oblivious to any higher calling
and suspicious of anything that claims to be true. These people, our
people, need help. This world needs something more than what we see.
At the heart of this problem is, of
course, sin. Mankind will always desire to do what satisfies the
flesh rather than what is truly good; all we need is the chance.
Every one of us has the potential to be the abusive husband or the
cheating wife or rebellious child or whatever. We sin, not just
because we have to, but because we want to. The reason these ills
seem “more” prevalent now is that we have simply given people the
opportunity to sin in greater amounts and more freely than ever
before. The proposal and rapid acceptance of naturalistic evolution
and the advent of “higher criticism” have made it easier and
easier to reject God and His Word. We have “science” telling us
that God didn't create and so we can ignore the arguments the Bible
makes without even reading them. Those who do read them, find that
the critics tear them apart so much as make them seem to lose all
meaning.
We once lived in a society -in a
world- where you had no choice but to at least consider the
possibility of God. Creation screamed at you, the preacher spoke to
you, the Spirit whispered to you, and all the world tried to be “good
people.” Things are different now aren't they? Creation has been
muzzled and painted over with a landscape of death and change, the
preacher has been compromised and spends more time building his flock
than actually teaching them (not to mention that virtually no one
goes to listen anymore but those who already believe), and all the
world sings to the tune of “just follow your heart.” Never mind
that God tells us in Jeremiah 17:9 that “The heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately wicked...” Those who we trust
with leadership have put forth an immense amount of effort to drive
our view earthward, away from the sky and the Son.
We need to recapture eternity. Our
lack of perspective has given people the means they need to pursue
their sins. Their is no 'ever-after' so find all the joy you can
today, right? There's no judge to make the rules so you decide how
to play the game, it's your game after all isn't it? No one made us
this way, so we can be whatever we want to be and be with whoever we
want to be with. There is no right and wrong only mine and yours.
If all we have to look at is the ground around us, is it any surprise
that our worldviews have gotten so muddy? When God is on His throne
and in His proper place in our minds, we see things as they should
be. Our actions have consequence and meaning because they will echo
in eternity, who we are matters because He has fashioned us for a
purpose, and what we do matters because reality reflects the very
nature of its Creator.
God is more than just a crutch for
hard times. He is more than just a nice thought on holidays or a
cultural hold-over. God is the very thing that gives our lives
meaning and worth. If there is no God then there is no law-giver for
reality. If there is no law-giver then there is no objective law by
which to differentiate good and evil. If there is no good and no
evil then nothing we do can rightfully be condemned. If we make the
rules then every argument is simply a matter of survival of the
fittest and our future will be nothing but cannibalism, as we devour
each other in our effort to have things our own way.
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