Why are we Backwards?

Contemporary society has a way of doing things backwards. Things that we prioritized are no longer a priority. We once valued traditional marriage and conservative values, but in the name of freedom we have liberated ourselves. But in the attempt to gain our freedom what have we really lost? Have we lost intimacy in marriage? Have we lost trust in relationships? Is our country more secure or less secure from our enemies? In the attempt for a more fair and just society have we pushed God out, and invited in personal person worship?

We all don’t have to think the same way to live together. Diversity includes freedom of thought, and my thought is are we trying to create a utopia without God? Just what is a utopia? I personally don’t think we can be personally liberated until we have made ourselves ready to die. Death for a believer brings true liberation. Yes we have been entrusted with this world, but by whom have we been entrusted with it? The Creator. Unless we acknowledge this, we will be continuously frustrated in our attempts to create a perfect world! The bible says that God frustrates the plans of the wicked, (psalm 33:10).

Unless we realize that we need God’s help in creating a just society, we are left to our own, and human beings are great sinners in need of repentance! This life isn’t all there is, but we are behaving like it is! Jesus said “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?” Yes, we all have a soul, and there are eternal rewards and punishments after we die. We used to live like we knew this, but pretending like this isn’t true doesn’t make it such. There are eternal truths and realities that have existed since the beginning of time! Time had a beginning, but why are we choosing to rail against God and His truth! The consequences for this belongs in the hands of a Holy and a Almighty God, Who can not lie. (Hebrews 6:18) And to Whom the angels and the demons are accountable to. If the angels and the demons will not get away with the good or bad they ultimately do, what makes you think that us mere mortals will?

We need to put God first again in all aspects of our society. It’s the right thing to do. “So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.” (James 4:17) This is Mike.

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