My how times have changed! I look at teens today like my youngest son, and then I think about how the world was when I was a teen. The difference between those two worlds is like night and day. On the weekends, we used to walk miles to the weekend party. Late at night, we walked back home from those parties. We had to walk because we did not have access to a car. But fear and danger were not in the air like it is today. We never thought about something bad happening to us along the way.
But today the streets are filled with danger. These days, it would be unthinkable for me to let my son walk the streets, alone or in company, at midnight. The world seems to be going crazy. We are no longer shocked by drive-by shootings in our cities. Today, we hear of mass murders in elementary schools, movie theatres, night clubs, etc. No place seems to be off limits to danger or death.
For youths today, this current world is the only world they know. But for me, I can see the crystal-clear difference between the world now and what it was 40 years ago because I lived in both generations. Moreover, those of us who walk in discernment know that there is more to what I am saying than what meets the eye. The vast change in the climate of our world speaks to the works of darkness at work in our world.
Piercing the Darkness with the Light of the Gospel
I thank God for our police forces, our judicial system, and all who work hard to make this world a better and safer place. But clearly, we are losing the battle to stem the tide of evil of our world.
Christ is the only real answer. Only He can change the heart of a man and make it new. That’s why we must pierce the darkness of this world with the light of the gospel.
Light is intrinsic to the gospel. For instance, the gospel is truth and truth is light. The gospel reveals how to get right with God the Creator. Through the gospel, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17), etc.
By contrast, the Bible refers to the devil as the god of this world. He “has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ….” (2 Cor. 4:4, NASB).
In other words, the devil’s goal is to keep those in the dark who are in the dark. He wants them to never see the light of salvation. His perverted script is what this world currently follows. He has blinded the minds of unbelievers to the point that danger and confusion are the orders of the day. That’s why we live in an increasingly spiritually dark world.
The church must not sit on the side lines. If we do, we aid the cause of the enemy. His mission is to suppress the light of the gospel. We have been made the stewards of that light. “If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost” (2 Cor. 4:3, KJV).
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