I was listening to Alistair Begg preach. I don’t remember the context but I made a note that he said, “Jesus did not come to deal with my loneliness, He came to deal with my sin.” In that one statement Begg pointed out another big conflict between modern culture and Biblical culture.
The Bible is not a history book. It is not a book on self-esteem. It is not a self-help book. It is not designed to help us make friends and feel good. It is a book that is presented to deal with God’s attempt to redeem mankind, one soul at a time. It is a book to deal with the big issue, sin. Every problem we face is rooted in sin. It is a condition we are born into and the actions we take. There is no solution to that in philosophy or science. We may some day find the key to fusion power. We may find a way to educate everyone. We may find a way to pay the federal deficit. None of that will make much difference because sin will cause us to misuse the solutions.
We face problems like nuclear proliferation. The problem is not in the science, it is the values behind the science. Carry that across into everything we are trying to do. What is the point of having a doctorate in Chemistry is you don’t know it is wrong to poison people? Why be the master of economics if you don’t accept that it is wrong to cheat people?
I’m sorry. It may sound trite. It may sound simple minded. It may set your teeth on edge but what the world needs is not “love, sweet love” but Jesus.
homo unius libri
What passes for love these days is mostly just mamby-pamby foolishness anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe real tragedy is that the church, which should know better, has accepted the world's definition.
DeleteGrace and peace