How is that for perspective? As such, we need to live with the end in mind. Living with a purpose is the key. As W.H. Auden reminds us: “We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.”
It is easy to get stifled by the noise of our world. As sociologist John Seel has said, we are constantly aware of and experiencing political polarization, institutional distrust, technological disruption, and economic uncertainty. But the real problem is that we are a society that knows how to do almost everything but no longer knows why it should do anything. We lack wisdom and have replaced it with artificial intelligence that is reshaping knowledge and social media that is reshaping our identity. Talk about confusion!
Perhaps this is what the Biblical authors were warning the church about two millennia ago.
Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”
I John 2:15 “Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world the love of the Father is not in him.”
Seems to me that we need to go back to basics and try to discern and “learn what is pleasing to the Lord.” Ephesians 5:10
Since we are living within a “Tinseled sham of a temporal world that deludes the eye and beguiles the heart,” perhaps we should seek to memorize Philippians 1:9-11.
“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.”
I will if you will.
Serving Him with you
Until He comes for us, Fred | 