Today’s devotional: the world’s only hope
Everybody’s got an idea for making the world a better place. If we elect the right president, pass (or defeat) the right legislation, deploy (or withdraw) the troops in the right places, things will be better (or at least less bad)!
It’s a good thing to work to make the world a more just place. But the Christian perspective on politics is different than the rest of the world’s, because we know that even the wisest leadership or the best legislation treats only the symptoms of the illness that afflicts our world. This Our Daily Bread devotional reminds us of the one—and only—hope for the world:
From the human standpoint, there is no solution for the struggles of the world. Leaders are naturally frustrated in trying to deal with the increasing problems in society. The only complete and permanent solution is found in the return of Christ to earth. When He comes, He will set up His kingdom. He will rule the nations in righteousness, and “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea” (Hab. 2:14).
As we await our Savior’s return, let us keep on praying, working, and watching, while “looking for the blessed hope”—our only hope for this world.
Read the full devotional at Our Daily Bread.
The world’s problems won’t be ultimately fixed until Jesus returns. How does that affect your approach to politics, missions, and volunteering? What motivates you to work for a better world, knowing that man’s efforts will always fall short?
According to what I read, even the 1000 year reign of Christ, doesn’t “fix” the world. When the Lord withdraws for a moment of test at the end, the whole world, not in the “camp of God” make war against God just as they did at the beginning of the thousand year reign– Armageddon. Doesn’t that prove a point? Even Christ gives “this world” no hope, and Daniel said that everything of the world “blows away in the wind.” (Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the great statue.)
The heart is “beyond cure.” (Jeremiah 17:9). So flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
By God’s Spirit, we have got to get new hearts that stay out of this flesh, out of this world, out of money, out of mere time, out of the world’s viewpoint. We have nothing in common here. We’re on enemy territory.
Our citizenship is in heaven. Our word for this world, speaks from that viewpoint.
While we journey on this planet in this time and space, we can look to the higher realms, through Christ.
It is possible for a “shift” or recreation to occur in a nano second. Indeed the world we live in is constantly being recreated just as it was in Genesis by His Hand.
So let us fix our eyes upon Jesus and try to work ourselves free of the bonds of self, selfishness, self-seeking, lust, profit and gain and especially from sins of the flesh for these keep us tied to this earthly realm.
The less attachment or devotion to the flesh and all its needs, the higher we can climb out of this dungeon bounded by time and space.
So always look for the good, the noble, the tru and the beautiful
and seek Him.
Life in the Spirit is the only way out.
where do you get this world is being “recreated”???