Pray For The World

  When I read about what happens around the world, and then I look at America, and even the way we prioritize sports, Instagram, entertainment, celebrities, and what we are going to do with our free time, it devastates me. I want to be clear: I am including myself in this. I think about North Korea, a place that is ruled by a ruthless lunatic, who in a long line of family dictators, rules his country with an iron fist and brainwashes them into submission. I think about the horrors I read about concerning ISIS, Sadaam Hussein and his sons, and the torture and fear they ruled Iraq with, a country I was deployed to in 2008. I see the way people live in the current country I deployed to, in shacks and no water, no internet, very little electricity, nutrition, and medication. I think about how we get angry when Taco Bell closes early. How we get mad at long lines in Wal- Mart. How upset do we get when our internet lags? How much food do we throw away? How "angry" do we get when somebody posts something on the internet that "offends" us? Somebody argued with me that "The world has been making great progress since the beginning of humanity without God existing, or at least being relevant. We are genuinely good people, he said. We have faced great obstacles and overcame them, but more problems just keep coming. But maybe as society progresses, someday, maybe another 7000 years from now, we will figure it out." So let me get this right. Let us take the view that humans have existed from anywhere between 10,000 and 7,000 years. Just for argument sake. So in 10,000 to 7,000 years, let us look at or track record as humans. As of July 11, 2017, we haven't figured out a way to eradicate murder, rape, theft, arson, abortion, suicide, depression, cancer, AIDS, totalitarian governments, war, jealousy, homelessness, sexually transmitted diseases, genocide, bullying, cyber- bullying, sexual harassment, sex trafficking, human trafficking, slavery, forced prostitution, adultery, cannibalism, execution, police brutality, racism, sexism, kidnapping, grand theft auto, prejudice, assault, domestic violence, drug overdoses, malpractice, lying, or coveting just to name off a few things. But as humans, we somehow all came together by ourselves from all over the planet, with different languages, without a creator or a standard of morality and somehow created our own morality out of thin air. And our track record, is listed above in detail, but could be listed in even more detail. I disagree. Humanity hasn't gotten better, we have gotten better at being desensitized. We need a savior, and we need God. All of those things exist without God, but guess what doesn't exist without HIM? Anything good. I pray for our world.