Our World Without Jesus
April 29, 2016
A recent posting making the rounds on Facebook really hits home to just how far we have fallen from God in our society today. We are so quick to come up with excuses for why people do what they do instead of talking about what the true root of all our problems really is. Unfortunately that three letter word has become unspeakable in our culture at the same time all the four letter words have become widely acceptable anywhere anytime.
So back to the story example; Just this past week on a street corner at 2AM in a large city in America, we have a few individuals just hanging around outside a 24hr pharmacy. A surveillance camera is capturing it all from across the street. For whatever reason one guy punches another guy square in the face and knocks him unconscious and out into the street. He is lying in the street out cold flat on his back. From across the street another guy runs to the person’s aide, no wait, he goes through the guys pockets and steals his wallet and whatever else he has on him of value and then runs off.
No one comes to the aide of this guy who is lying in the street. Then a taxi comes into view and turns the corner just wide enough to miss the guy lying there, but then right behind him comes another taxi and proceeds to just run right over the guy with both his front and rear tires. Someone working in the pharmacy at some point calls 911 only to have the operator question if this was really an emergency because if the person is just passed out then that would not be considered an emergency. Eventually the rescue squad arrived, but the guy died either in route to or at the hospital.
Don’t bother picking up your jaw yet because after that the news headlines talk about someone suing the pharmacy for not having enough security to prevent things like this from happening.
My first reaction was to post a reply stating that it looks like we need to outlaw cars & fists because they kill people just like guns do. I still stick with that bit of sarcasm, but then I was led by the Holy Spirit to write a more in-depth article about it.
I would like to point out that we have all kinds of man’s laws on the books to control our behavior in society and we are creating more and more every day. In the process we are losing more and more of our freedoms as a result, but is this really preventing people from doing some very terrible things? Not hardly. Oh don’t get me wrong, things would certainly be a lot worse without laws, but are we not getting to the point where there is no trust at any level, person, business, internet, government, there is corruption at every level and the ramifications of it are already extremely painful and the worst of it is yet to be experienced. We are on a course of bankruptcy both morally and economically as we try to pay our way out of the debt load of our sins.
Our country was founded on the principles of God and more specifically the Triune God. There are some that argue that point but the underlying beliefs of our founding fathers had God’s word in mind as they penned the laws and doctrine that formed the foundation on which our country was established. It is only now that God has all but been illuminated from our society that these original words have taken on new meaning. As a result our free society is no longer under the fear, honor, respect, love, and guidance of the Lord, but rather free to do whatever we humans are capable of. As anyone can see that in some cases these things are truly amazing, but in so many others we find them to be extremely dark & destructive. When we place our faith in Jesus Christ we hear constantly that we are to love everyone and to respect them for the Holy creation they are. To live a life pleasing to God not out of command but out of the same love He continues to give to us. We are to do the will of our Father in Heaven to the best of our ability and ask for forgiveness & redemption for when we fall short. To work together to build each other up onto the narrow path that leads to God the Father. If we are truly filled by His Holy Spirit then the pain & suffering that comes when we do not follow God’s word becomes crystal clear. That cost of sin falls upon everyone and that burden eventually becomes too heavy to carry. The devil loves that environment because through all that temptation God’s followers are preyed upon and many will lose their way.
In God’s word you will find the guidance as well as the warnings of every aspect of what happened on that street corner at 2AM in the morning. You will not find that the answer was to have more security at the pharmacy! Please read it for yourself, study it closely, seek out others who can help you to understand it as we as help you live it!
Whether you are a well learned Christian or a newbie please get out into your neighborhoods and show all others what God’s love and grace for them is like. Through doing acts of Christian kindness to everyone the Holy Spirit leads your way (all people, not just those with physical needs), you will get their attention because nothing is free in this world, well Jesus is not of this world and he already paid the bill in full for all our sins so the only thing that is left to do is accept Him with your whole heart & soul. If you truly do that completely you will undergo an amazing transformation that is also contagious and will spread rapidly from family to family. Learn how simple & easy doing these acts of kindness are just by signing up at https://acts18.org/program. The program is totally free because that is what God's grace is all about. Remember no matter how terrible things are today nothing is impossible with God. Please start today and lives will be changed starting with your own. God bless!