Our world is out of balance at the moment, the only thing that can bring us peace is God. Many of us feel an innate need to belong. We therefore often begin to identify with groups, our country, our family, a political party, but all too often they lead us away from peace and we feel this in our hearts. We live in a society that yearns but only sees people that dont belong to our group, our country, our religion our family, so what do we do when that happens, fight to get others to conform to our opinions, our values, our dreams. Evidence of this can be seen by the rediness some people portray to die for a cause and then state that they are dying for God. How could a loving God want such a thing, but to someone from a poor country, the belief is that anything is better then what they are experiancing, how they are living. In Britain we see corruption, not just from Government, though that is bad enough, but in every human endeavour. So what do we do as a result? This is where the Cult of looking after no 1 has sprung up. However think back to when we train our children to go to the toilet, what is it we called no 1's? so those that look after no 1 are in fact doing just that, over everyone else. The truth is that becasue of our fallen natures, anything can be dressed up and, if packaged correctly, seem like the right thing to do. Such is our desire to do good. Even religion through the years has done just that, maybe even especially religion.
However we all know that all this is so far removed from how we should be living. We have an idea of utopia, Heaven on earth but again because of our human natures will never be able to fully realise that on earth. However the best thing that we can is allow God to come into our lives and allow that life to be fully illuminated and transformed by his loving presence. We dont need to save anyone else, after all we cant we are not God. However God is at the heart of everything his peaceful presence can give us the strength and courage to overcome anything. In fact it is in suffering that he is closest to us because in suffering he shares our pain. After all did he not say "Pick up your cross and follow me"? it was love that brought him to that cross. A love that he had for us when we rejected him, spurned him and pushed him away, yet he still loved us. He gave his life for us, to find our lives we must give it back to God and maybe, just maybe in doing that we begin to make the world a better place for us all to live in.
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