Many are experiencing cultural disorientation which has led to distrust. Our dis-ease is the result of the loss of belief in something beyond ourselves, someone who is utterly transcendent and not restricted and regulated in the temporal.
“God is Dead” and our culture has killed Him. No wonder people are confused and puzzled. As G.K. Chesterton said, “We all dread a maze without a center,” and make no mistake, we are living in a world without a center that grounds goodness in nothing more than just, ‘what I like and what I want.’
Life demands a center and Christ is the Center. He alone is the one who can give meaning and ultimate purpose to life in both this temporal and the coming eternal world.
The apostle Paul explains this perfectly in Colossians 1:15-20.
And He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation. For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church, and He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fulness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through blood of this cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
The logical response for us is what is said next in 1:28.
And we proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ
Jesus is coming, but what will happen until He comes? William Butler Yeats, in his prophetic poem, The Second Coming, predicted, “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold” the reason is, “…the best lack all conviction while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.” For such a time as this we are to “be ready to make a defense for the hope that is in us.” The game is on, it will not be postponed. The King is coming.
The closing phrase of Yeats is that we are “slouching toward Bethlehem,” describing our waiting for the slow coming of an apocalyptic revelation. That revelation has come. (John 1:1-14)
He has come, and because He has come, we bow to Him, Jesus.
Serving Him with you Until He comes for us. Fred | 
