Bucking the Trend
Deuteronomy 32:5-6
“They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation. Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?”
The fact is a difficult pill to swallow, and it’s one archeologists, historians, and anthropologists labor to overlook at all costs, but one that even the most primitive, tribal persons understand intuitively, that somehow, by some means, the earth has been corrupted from an idyllic former state. Yet, every religionist understands through the veiled eyes of conscience and reason that the mortal corruption in the physical world is inextricably linked to the moral corruption in our souls, and that neither is coincidental. In fact, that’s what makes the current, sophisticated fad of progressivism so ironically barbaric, because while progressivism recognizes that men are villains and corrupters of earth, it also espouses in a strange twist of logic that men can also be earth’s saviors, on the condition that men eradicate themselves from the earth. But even if we got ourselves out of the way, if we ended carbon footprints and fracking emissions and industrial waste today, would lions stop stalking and devouring lambs? Would mockingbirds quit bullying sparrows out of breakfast? Would tornadoes stop wreaking havoc on forests? Can the rot at the heart of cosmic existence simply be rooted out by our extermination? Is a gospel of self-extermination really a better solution than a gospel of divine Incarnation and redemption?!
People from all walks of life, from polar opposite sides of the political divide, from communists to Marxists to capitalists, from Hindus to Buddhists to atheists, agonize over evil in the world, decry it from congressional halls and temples, protest it in books and street corners, but won’t find it first and foremost in the mirror! Let’s set the record straight, friend, first for ourselves, and then for our lost brothers. Our betrayal against our God and Father is the root of all the brokenness we see around us. And unless we learn to say on a daily basis, “Father, forgive me—a sinner!”, the world will never change.
There’s been far too much treachery in our relationship to God and far too little thankfulness. Let’s buck that trend today, shall we?