The Darkness Around Us

 Pastors used to be anti social media because they had to deal with the fallout of failed humanity caused by immoral conduct. I am not a fan of social media, but for a different reason. I feel like a stranger in a strange land today. I feel like I don't fit in. Everything that I hold dear is dead or dying. Things that are of no value to me are highly esteemed by society. We live in a world where increasingly evil is called good, and good is called evil.

My revelation came when I realized that I am living in a computer nerd's fantasy world. A world where lonely, unfulfilled kids feel accepted, leaving me feeling lonely and unsatisfied. This tech revolution did not come from socially adjusted normal people. It did not come from established institutions of higher learning. It came from the brilliant minds of maladjusted kids and college dropouts. Guys who could not get a date or who had been molested by adults. When you can look in a mirror and be confused about your gender, how can you be trusted to decide what is best for the whole world? They are trying to change the world into their image and likeness.

I am not anti technology. I am not tempted by the lies of modern society. This is not an age issue.  This is not even a faith issue. I know that by following Jesus Christ I will be at odds with society. But I also know that the reason why so many young people feel lost and alone and lonely and unfulfilled is that they are living in a world created to make damaged people feel more at home.

"And even as thy did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things that are not fitting;" Romans 1:28

Ultimately this is a God issue. Like all of life, we reject or ignore Christ to our own peril. That is why the first word in the Gospel declaration is "repent". Only in Christ can people of any age be brought out of darkness into God's marvelous light. Only in Christ can humanity see where they are going and stop wandering in the darkness of sin and rebellion.