A World Gone Berserk

It seems like the world has gone berserk! Murders, shootings, terrorist attacks, war, hate, violence, wickedness, and just plain evil. Is there some kind of virus going around that causes insanity? Whatever the cause, things don't appear to be getting much better.  

Now some may say that the world has always been this bad, and it only seems to be worse because we have such real-time access to global news through modern technology. When evil or violence occurs, we hear about it, and even see it, almost immediately. But I wonder. Do societies and cultures gradually become more immoral and evil over time? You know what? It sure seems that way. For example, compare our country's morality to what it was 50 years ago and there's only one conclusion you can make as far as the direction we are headed. 

I wonder what God thinks when He sees the condition of this world? After all, it started out pure, but then degraded into corruption. Do you think He will ever get to the point where He is sorry that He even created humans?  Well...as a matter of fact, He once did! There was a time, long ago, when that's exactly what happened. Mankind had became more and more wicked. And God noticed. 

"The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. (Genesis 6:5) 

Do you know what God felt about that? It broke His heart! "So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart." (Genesis 6:6)

But God didn't just sit back and do nothing. On the contrary, He felt there was only one thing that He could do. Wipe out every living thing!  What?!   

And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.”  (Genesis 6:7)

That would have been the end of the human race if it wasn't for one man whose name was Noah. "But Noah found favor with the Lord" (Genesis 6:8)  The rest is history. Mankind got a second chance. The human race started anew, but because of Satan's influence, evil starting creeping in again. I wonder, are we again getting to the point of God's disgust with the human race? Will God again decide to destroy His creation? I think He would have done exactly that by now except for one major difference between Noah's world and our's ....JESUS!

Instead of destroying the human race, God decided to save it - by sending a Savior. Without Jesus, the world would be doomed. We would be without hope. Jesus is the only hope for the human race. He has overcome the world. If we are in Christ, believing in Him and following Him, then we overcome the world as well, forgiven and saved by grace.

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."  (Ephesians 6:12)

There's a spiritual battle going on. However, we can resist and overcome. 

 "His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires."  (2 Peter 1:3-4)