Many things in our world are broken. Our relationships with each other and with other nations fall into this area of brokenness. The news doesn’t report this because it would hurt people’s feelings today. The evidence is in every report even though it isn’t pointed out.
Why is our world broken? Because we have broken it. Our relationship with God has been broken for a long time and the effect of that has spread all over the world. God is allowing all of this brokenness because of the time that we are living in. Some people can see this because they believe in God’s Word which foretells most of what we see and hear in the news today.
What does this mean to America or any other Christian nation today? Read Ezekiel 38 and compare it to what is happening in the Middle East. God is in control of this and very soon the world will see His hand in this. I pray that anyone reading this will seriously seek to know Jesus as your Savior.
Augustine was an early church father/preacher who wrote and taught many things in his lifetime. One of the opening sentences of his writings is this paragraph of The Confessions of Augustine, which acknowledges, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” (Confessions, 1,1.) Only in God is found the final happiness of any person.
This is a teaching and a truth I have written about myself that I learned through the Holy Spirit as I read the Bible over the last ten years. God reveals His wisdom and truth to us as we read and study His Word…if we seek His wisdom and ask the Holy Spirit to teach us. I am not bragging that I learned this because of Augustine but that it surprised me today as I was reading about him. God’s Word is the best book of Wisdom in the world because it comes from Him. There is no “human wisdom” contained in it because all that is written in it was inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Seek to know Jesus as your Savior through your study of His Word and ask Him to come into your heart and cleanse you while you study. He will give you the joy and peace that you have been searching for that can’t be found in schools or jobs or in any endeavor that we engage in daily.
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