Have you found yourself looking at the world lately, feeling as though you don't even recognize it?
It's happened to me quite a bit.
Things have just changed.
We've all seen the headlines coming at us day after day - a barrage of news flashes explaining stories we once believed unthinkable.
It's as though the world we once knew has somehow been replaced by one from another realm.
There's a very good reason for this.
It has.
Not entirely just yet, but significantly.
With every new development, it changes a little more.
Being honest with yourself, do you feel as though it has changed for the better?
I, for one, do not.
I don't believe any of us would disagree that we've all witnessed these dramatic changes, but we might disagree as to why this is happening.
Suffice it to say that the world we all once knew will never again return.
Do I say this because I'm some brilliant historian or claim to have immense psychic abilities?
Not even close.
I say these things because they were written about thousands of years ago, and the ones who wrote about it have a pretty remarkable track record when predicting what would happen in the future.
Perfect, in fact.
In 2 Timothy 3:1-5, Paul writes:
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power."
If you were to compare these words with what we're seeing in the world today, do you see any similarities?
Do you see these attitudes in our politics, our media, our schools, our entertainment, and yes, even in some of our churches?
Do you see them at the core of many social issues we're being forced to accept as "normal" while knowing in our hearts that they are not?
All of these things are the absolute antithesis of what Jesus teaches us we should do, who we should be, or how we should act.
So, what are we to do with all of this?
The answer is very simple...
On a very personal level, we all need to get back to the basics.
The main reason the world feels so upside down to most of us is because our world has gone to war against the Christian morals, beliefs, and teachings we used to accept as the bedrock of society.
What was once viewed in the public square as good, right, just, and true has been replaced by the immoral and depraved.
Our world has truly reached the turning point where evil is now called good and good is called evil.
But we are powerless over what the world does.
The only thing we have control over is what we decide to focus upon with our own lives, in our own hearts, and our own minds.
Do we trust the world to teach us right from wrong, good from evil, or truth from lies, or do we look to Jesus to teach us these things?
Which path will do more good to the world around us, and which will do more harm?
For me, personally, I know which path I'll follow.
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