I’m sitting here looking at the current issue of Popular Mechanics. The cover “grab your attention headline” is 20 Bold Ideas that will change the world; quake proof buildings, cheap solar power, finding water on the moon, curing cancer with laser, cars that drive themselves. Technology is changing our world so rapidly I’m afraid to buy anything lest it be antiqued before I get it home. There is no doubt this is the most interesting ever time to be alive. I don’t want to get any older not because I’m afraid of dying. Jesus has taken that fear away. I don’t want to die because I don’t want to miss what’s coming next.
If the afternoon judge programs on TV are a valid sample of our general population, I hope not but fear they are, then something becomes extremely clear. All the wonders of technology aren’t doing a thing to change human nature. We are still as bright and stupid, noble and selfish, nice and vicious as we have ever been. We can read Bible stories and understand them because the people then were the same as people now. It doesn’t matter if a man rides one horse or drives in a car powered by 400 horses it is still the same man. It’s exciting to be human but there are times it is very discouraging.
Isn’t it absolutely amazing that God became one of us? Sometimes I think God is a bit crazy. Crazy with love for us.
Written by Roger Bothwell on October 13, 2010
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