The World Has Gone Completely Crazy
The world has gone completely crazy. If you don’t think so, just switch on the news for a second or two. Whether it’s someone who decides they don’t like their doctor’s prescription so they’re going to shoot him and anyone else who stands in their way; someone who decides to tauntingly murder a classroom full of innocent schoolchildren; some dictator who decides to invade and level a foreign country simply for no other reason than his own personal ego; or someone who wants to remove guns from the hands of law-abiding citizens, while at the same time, seeking to make secure through law, that abortionists are able to both legally hang onto and unleash their deadly weapons of mass destruction daily (which have, by the way, taken the lives of more than 63 million innocent pre-born people over the past five decades), the world has, as I said, gone absolutely nuts.
But this is precisely what happens when you deny God’s existence and remove His wisdom from the masses (Psa. 2). This is also exactly what the Apostle Paul described by divine inspiration to the first-century church of Christ (Ro. 16:16) that worked and worshipped together in Rome, saying of such: “Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”; “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known” (Romans 3:13-17). If that doesn’t describe what’s going on in the news today, I don’t know what does. Paul also said it would get worse and worse as people would become more and more “lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, [and] lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God”(2 Tim 3:1-4). No question about that!
It is against this backdrop, in such a world gone mad – with so many satanically-intoxicated by their own self-serving and sinfully exaggeratedsense of self-importance – that I am so very grateful, to be a blood-bought, fully forgiven, and hope-filled New Testament Christian. One who can experience peace every day, despite whatever is going on around them (Isa. 26:3; Jn. 14:27, 16:33; Rom. 5:1-11, 8:6; Phil. 4:4-9). One who is part of a world-wide family that – totally unlike the world around them – is devoted to unconditionally loving, serving, accepting, and working together with one another, no matter what; and even directly in spite of our many different backgrounds, perspectives, talents, and opinions at times (Ro. 12:3-21, 14:1-19, 15:5-7; Gal. 3:26-29, 5:13-6:2; Eph. 4:1-6, 29-32).
It is learning, loving, living, and exhibiting this type of Christian love, unity, family, and acceptance – so distinct and opposite from the world around us – that sets us apart;both from the terrifying madness, as well as the eternal destination, of those engulfed in and swept away by such evils and atrocities. Now; aren’t you glad to be a Christian?