Two Ways

I've often heard, as I'm sure you have, charges brought against the christian faith concerning God and Jesus. They usually go something like this, if God is a God of love why is there such injustices in the world?  Why do people go hungry, suffer deadly diseases, become victims of hatred, etc.? How does God allow this to happen and  why? I think you get the gist of these types of questions.

These questions take nothing away from the goodness of God, in fact they are legitimate questions that are indicative of a deeper issue than the whys of human suffering.  What they indicate is the voice of the human race that is in open defiance against God, our Creator. By voicing the question of God's supposed lack of compassion and concern we are voicing the first accusation against God made at the beginning of history, in the garden of Eden. There the serpent also accused God of withholding good from our first ancestors. He lied to them and said," God knows that if you eat {of the fruit} you will be like God, knowing good and evil." He implied God was not fair or honest with them Adam and Eve. They fell for it and chose their way rather than God's.

There is the basis for all the evil and wrongs this world has seen since that day. We have in effect told God that we do not accept His instructions, His standard for life, for reality, or of decency.  We will determine for ourselves what is right and wrong, just or unjust, and if God's way be out of step with what we say is good, then He is the one who is wrong, unjust, fickle, or irrelevant. But God calls throughout history and says, "Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?" 

We are in dangerous days in our nation. We have called God's way an imposition of anothers' belief. We have called perversions, immorality, infanticide, constitutionally protected rights. We have mistaken subversive crimes that weaken our system of government and threaten our freedoms as hardball politics as usual. There are injustices in this fallen world, but they are not God's fault. They are totally our fault. We are the ones who must return to God's way, and confess our wrong ways.

God still offers revival, through the Gospel of His Son Jesus Christ. His teachings are the true and the only hope of salvation, and are the basis for all law and justice, they are foundational for the preservation of decency and order.  My prayer has been that you, and we as a nation, would consider His word, turn to Him and see once again, that His way is the best way.

Two ways are in front of us. Which one will it be?