This was the title of a message that I presented during a recent Saturday evening church service. The title begs the question, "Is the world really crazy?" I think so, but you don't have to accept this premise to consider what will follow.
Every generation seemingly thinks that it has it worse than the one before it, that somehow the current state of the world is unprecedented. We hear things like, "this economy is the worst ever", "everything is 'going to hell in a hand basket'". The "religious" folks list the plagues of vices: homosexuality, gambling, pornography, murders, drugs, etc., etc. The "environmental" folks site the impending doom that awaits a society of pollutants. "Peacemakers" decry a world at war, genocides throughout the globe.
This is what I see: a world that has turned to itself to solve its problems. I see a world of agendas. Truth exists only if it serves a purpose. The quest for power has replaced the desire to know "what is".
Dear God, when will this change? How can things change when what is real is what it needs to be?
Just like "wars", "genocide", and the "Seven Deadly Sins" are not original to the present, neither are my prayers. Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, and order turned to disorder, men and woman have asked these very same questions for millennia.
Here is what is fascinating. God has answered this question over and over. Not just to me, but to the billions and billions of those He created. Many of the Old Testament prophets asked, "God, when will you fix things?" Jesus' disciples would ask, "Jesus, when will you fix things?" By reading Paul's letters in the New Testament, it was obvious that the church was asking, "Paul, when will God fix things?"
The answer is quite clear. We have asked over and over, and God has been patient and answered it again and again.
It is my intention to explore God's answer in upcoming posts. As presented at the Saturday service, like a playwright, God has provided an epic script. The curtain has fallen on many of the acts and scenes, but the exciting conclusion to History's story is readily available for any who have interest...
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Here is quote from Neil Boortz's site that seems to answer the question.
http://boortz.com/more/quotes.html
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
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