Of the world

 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. – 1 John 4.5

 

Sometimes we look in dismay and we wonder how the world can act the way it does. We are dismayed at the stuff going on around us. The way of the world is mind boggling.

 

The world seems to have totally lost the plot. The wackiness of the world leaves us gobsmacked and even more surprising is how many Christians go right along with the craziness.

 

How does that happen?

 

It happens because the world is the world and it can’t act any other way. We can’t fix the world and we can’t expect it to repair itself because it is still cursed and broken beyond repair.

 

There is only one hope. The only hope is for people to come to Christ one by one and have their hearts changed. People can be fixed, the world can’t.

 

The whole world is lost in the darkness of sin, the light of the world is Jesus. We have the hope that the world needs. It can’t fix itself. It needs Jesus.