WE ARE ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION

Once upon a time there was a Garden.  In that Garden God began what we know as humanity.  Adam and Mrs. Adam lived in luxury until one day they upset the apple cart; so to speak.  From that day forward the human race has declined.  The struggles remain constant.  Thus, we tend to raise the question of what is this world coming to.

Our question seems to imply that it was once stable; but now it is rocky.  While it has been rocky from the first sin in the Garden, man has grown rather dull to such a fact. We have become deadened to the downward slide.

John Eldredge observes it this way.  Something awful has happened; something terrible.  Something worse, even, than the fall of man.  For in that greatest of all tragedies, we merely lost Paradise---and with it, everything that made life worth living.  What has happened since is unthinkable: we've gotten used to it.  We're broken in to the idea that this is just the way things are.  The people who walk in great darkness have adjusted their eyes.  Regardless of our religious or philosophical beliefs, most of us live as though life is pretty much the way things are supposed to be.

The good news is that due to Jesus we do not have to accept our declination.  Rather we may awaken to potential and possibility of grand reversal.  It is God who awakens us from our invisible tombs of non-attention as well as indifferent slumber.  It is His resurrected Son who calls us to a whole new current creation.  It is the Holy Spirit of God who re-energizes and re-empowers we common people.

It isn't a question of what is this world coming to?  The real question is has anyone done anything about this decline we are in?  The answer is that, absolutely, Jesus already did.   It isn't a matter of where we are headed; but who stopped the disastrous trend?

Once we ponder the right question we approach the right solution.  Jesus is the solution.  In him we find hope---solid, defined hope.  Jesus has turned the life-train around in mid-track.  Hear his call.  He died that we might live; so let's get after it!