When I was in high school it really
bothered me the way people partied and drank and did other
things more stupid and harmful to their bodies. In my first
year of college at a secular school I was so immersed in it
that it sickened me to no end. I became enraged when a gay
and lesbian club spoke to my class to try to get people to
join them.
Today, it doesn’t bother me as much.
Not that I’ve become numb to the sin that I’m surrounded
with. Instead, I’ve realized that people who don’t know God,
live their life like there is no God. We can’t expect any
better from them and honestly it is unfair to expect them to
live by our standards. Make no mistake about it, what they
are doing is sinful and wrong and God will judge them fully
for everything they do. But what should we expect from
people who do not know better?
What we know that non-Christians don’t
know about themselves is that they have a hole in them that
only God can fill. They are miserable without God. Their
lives have no purpose as they chase after wealth and power
and prestige with the knowledge that in the end they will
still die and no matter how wealthy, powerful, or important
they are they come to the same end as the homeless man on
the street. People drown their misery in alcohol, drugs,
sex, food, television, and an endless number of other
things.
To those of us that have been
Christians for any length of time, doing these things seem
foolish and harmful. It is hard to look through the eyes of
others and see why they would do such things. It comes down
to the simple fact that they are spiritually lost.
The Westminster Confession states that
the chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him
forever. If that is what we are here on earth for, how can
the person who doesn’t know God achieve this? If we were
created to glorify God, how can the person who doesn’t know
God possibly fulfill the purpose they were created for? No
wonder they spend their lives looking for purpose in all the
wrong things and are wretched because they can’t find it..
Only when God is in our lives do we
realize how miserable we are and that everything that we
have tried to fill our lives with simply won’t work. Once
people realize that they are spiritually lost, they are a
small step away from realizing that they need God. This
leads us to foundational value # 3.
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