A Deepening Problem

It has been a very disturbing couple of weeks. Tragic even. The Boston marathon attack is just another reminder that there really is evil in the world. And then people sending riacin in the mail. And of course it seems another school has a shooting, another jilted lover kills the other, and it goes on and on and on. Being a pastor, I end up talking with people who have lost direction and purpose in life, feel they are worthless, and have nothing to contribute to society. The problem is simple: we've forgotten where we've come from.

I'm not talking about geographically, but God-graphically. Our society has gotten further and further away from the truth of how we came to be. When you don't know or believe in God, the only other thing you can come to believe is that you have no purpose; you are an accident. Which is precisely the very thing that drives many to commit the crimes they do.

I'm not talking about getting our country back to be a "Christian nation"; I personally want the separation of church and state to be as fat and thick as possible. No, I'm not talking about corporately here...I'm talking individually. We each have to take responsibility for our actions and that starts with realizing that there is a God that we are ultimately accountable to.

Jesus tells us in Matthew 24:12, "Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold..." (TNIV) I think its safe to say that we are seeing the fruitage of this divine insight. The context of that particular chapter talks about the signs of the second coming of Christ. If you've stumbled upon this blog somehow, I urge you to think of what is going on around us and also you're eternal situation. We don't need more laws or more people telling us what to do. What we need is to find our way back to the One who loved us enough to create us--and not only that--but die for us as well. We have a deepening problem around us to be sure. But we have an even greater Solution. Seek Him. He can be found.