What the world needs.
“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13,14.
Abba Hillel Silver wrote,
“Faith in God is the strongest bulwark of a free society. Human freedom began when men became conscious that over and above society and nature there is a God who created them...who fashioned them in His likeness, and that they are, therefore, possessed of intrinsic and independent significance and are endowed, as individuals, with original and irrevocable rights and authority”.
Abba Hillel Silver
As I look at our society I see an increasingly secular society that is not meeting the spiritual and emotional needs of the individual. They have increasingly turned from God.
Western society seems to me to feed the masses materialism and there is nothing wrong with materialism in balance. The things we want are not evil in themselves.
They however fail to meet man’s real needs, his spiritual need. And man most definitely has a spiritual dimension.
People may deny their need for God or the fact that God exists but it doesn’t eliminate the fact that man has a deep need that only God can fill.
The words of Jesus are as relevant today as they were when he said them. The Matthew’s gospel recording Jesus as saying,
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30
I believe our society as a whole is destined to fail if the spiritual dimension in the individual is not met and mankind fails to turn to God.
Please think about it.
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