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Age of Brokenness.

 We are living in an age of brokenness, no matter what age you are, you probably have been touched with relationships falling apart, which causes more and more people to live in isolation. In this generation there is less of an incentive to heal and reconcile relationships, but that doesn’t excuse the amount of people who are broken. Why people don’t seem to be motivated to heal relationships is because our beliefs about faith and God have changed, really giving us less of an incentive to do what our religion says. If I act from my personal beliefs, but the person that I am responding to has abandoned religious beliefs, than the response to my wanting things to be better can be misinterpreted and rejected then by someone else. Generally when a society has expectations about broken relationships, loneliness and isolation, and the beliefs are generally accepted, society becomes a more compassionate society, because all value the same things. When religious values are undermined and rejected, there is more suffering in our society, because usually religion fosters a greater sense of peace and acceptance than secular values do.


Healing relationships and our souls takes more than common values, it takes religious conviction that in previous generations shaped our society. Wanting to be free has turned out to be a curse for some people, because wanting to be free from religion has caused our society to become out of control. Trust is broken down when we abandon God, for the sake of autonomy, and any measure of self control seems like it has become an oppression. To heal our brokenness we need to stop compartmentalizing our lives, but this becomes impossible when our culture is divided as much as it is. People resort to violence now more than ever when they can’t get their way, because the strength or unity of humanity has been radically compromised. 


Unity exists in groups now, and the larger your group the more powerful you are. Change isn’t something that the bible talks about in a positive manner: Proverbs 24:21 KJV says “My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change.” However that is what most people are doing in the world now, they are given over to change. As a matter of fact, some aspects of our society have changed so much that it wouldn’t be recognizable to someone living in this world 20 years ago! That’s a lot of change. And because the world has changed so much, there is less security and less stability, which makes it harder for the broken to be forgiven and healed. Even religion is being challenged to change, as the society tries to reidentify God Himself, the Source of our stability and healing. As long as things continue in this way, healing will be much harder for many many people throughout the world.


God is the Source of our healing and if we are to seek reconciliation with each other, we should first be reconciled with the Lord. This is Mike.


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