The air of progress, ironically though is an illusion of progress. We think we are better today, than we were yesterday, and tomorrow will be even better. Yet, we haven't changed much at all.
How so do you say? Well, on the grounds of what really matters in this life. First, however before I go any further (if you will), I want to make two solid foundational points:
1. Something went terribly wrong after The Fall (Genesis 3-4)
2. BUT in the beginning: Everything was Perfect (Genesis 1-2)
Now the reason, I gave you #1 before #2, is because it is hard for man to humble himself enough to this fact: Man is not the center of the universe
Another reason, I gave you #1 before #2, is because it is hard for man to realize that he was formed from Something outside of his own control: Man has a Creator
And yet again (pardon my forgetfulness), I gave you #1 before #2, because if we actually read these first 4 chapters of Genesis, we can agree: Man messed it all up
And from the result of one man' sin: You have the decay of the world ever since & (please don't miss this next point) man's attempt to fix this problem ever since.
You ask how so?
Well, advancement...I could list all the organizations, all the regimes, all the social networks, all the do it yourself syndromes, all the therapy, and the list goes on and on and on.
BUT the problem is ironically enough: Man cannot fix his problem: the problem of sin.
Man sinned and left the Perfect. A Perfect God in every since. Now the imperfections of man, have been haunting him ever since. The loneliness. The independence. The cravings for more...
So what are we to do?
Isn't this question that can and can only result? What are we to do?
Well, here is the missing piece if you will. Say that same Perfect God had a Son. And He was Perfect too. And He was sent down from The Perfectness of God (we call it Heaven). And He lived a sinless life. And He was the Messiah of the promised Holy Scriptures from old (through the holy prophets). And He was the Perfect Atonement for our sin and sinful nature. And He was crucified. ‘For only through the shedding of blood, sin is atoned for.” And He was buried for 3 days. And then He rose again. And His Spirit was manifested to His followers on earth. And His Spirit has been spreading ever since…
Would you believe that? Could you believe that?
A Perfect God, who casts out us sinners, and then sends His own Son to die for our sins? Would this be fair?
Fair? If that was even the question: weren’t we wrong in the first place anyways…?
And still we can reject the Truth can we not?
We can still try and try and try and try and try and try and try and try to fix our own problem. For it is a problem. If we existed because we were created by Someone. Than wouldn’t the only way to fix our problem is to go back to our creation? To the Creator>?
Ah but here is man’s problem: Pride. ‘For they loved the creature, rather than the Creator’. Man is still trying to fix his/her own problem. But it is in vain; for it is, as we have said: Impossible.
And from this Pride: we become our own little gods; independent; creating more problems and more problems than we had before. IF we can fix it outside God we think, than we must make it grand. And the illusion is that it works, but reality sits down with us over time and we look back and realize that we have just created more of a mess than when we first initially set out to fix.
Man cannot fix sin. We cannot. We cannot. We cannot. We cannot.
Ah but we try and try and try and try and try.
Meanwhile, our progress has never been progress. We are still eating rotten apples, until we let God feed us. ‘I am the True Food.’ ‘I am the Living Bread’. ‘I am Living Water’.
And yet we try and try and try and try to drink and eat elsewhere.
All the while, that nasty devil is trying ‘to kill, steal , and destroy us’.
No wonder, we are desperate for a Savior.
No wonder, we must give up, and let God reign in us.
No wonder, we will never rest outside of Him.
No wonder, our hearts need Jesus.
No wonder.
We shall always wander, until we find our True Home.
"For he satisfies the longing soul, and
the hungry soul he fills with good things."
Psalm 107:9
