An improved society?

AN IMPROVED SOCIETY?

 

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God
lives forever (1 John 2:17 NIV).

 

The dreams and fantasies of science fiction writers decades ago have become scientific realities. There are people alive today who witnessed the first automobiles to scare horses along deeply rutted dirt roads. They might have seen the first adventurous mail plane pilots circle a barn on which someone had painted a large arrow pointing north so the pilots could regain their bearings. Later, they attentively listened as news reports broadcast the first attempts of man to enter space, and sat glued to the TV screen as man walked on the moon for the first time.

 

In one lifetime, we have transformed the lifestyle of our nation. But something is terribly wrong. Medical advances and technological inventions have not changed the basic sinful nature of human beings. Civilization, education, wealth and legislation have not, and cannot, make any nation a utopia.

 

Science can deal only with things of this world, which are passing away. Society is transformed only when individuals are changed from the inside out. People are going to live (or die) forever. What a difference it would make if the efforts spent on improving our lot in life were spent on doing the will of God.

 

Life response: I will concentrate more on doing God’s will than on making temporal gains.