The Real Remedy

Why is it that most of the world thinks life’s problems can be solved either with money or education? Smart people don’t necessarily make good neighbors and money can’t mend a broken heart. A petty thief with a good education becomes a corporate thief. Educate a man with a blow gun and he will shoot you with a rifle. How the world can be so blind to its heart trouble is a mystery to me. The Bible says, “out of the heart are the issues of life.” What does this mean? It tells me that we try to fix the symptoms instead of the cause. Educate wicked people and you end up with educated wicked people. No amount of money or learning can touch an evil heart. Man is not basically good. It takes someone with his head deep in the sand to believe that what a man knows can save him from what he is. Evil has a death grip on all of us and the condition of the world is just one proof. The Word speaks of us as “desperately wicked” and our usual answer to this is, “I’m not so bad.” If the death of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross means anything, it tells us what a miserable condition we are in. The death of Jesus was not about His weakness because he said, “no man takes my life from me I lay it down of my own accord.” His death is about His love for us and it exposes evil for what it is. That the creation can be so spiritually blind it does not recognize its Creator is proof of the darkness in the human heart.
The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ speaks loud and clear to our spiritual condition. The remedy reflects the disease. Our sin may not be a big thing to us but it is to God. The sin in us has brought death and separation from our Maker. We can’t come home on our own. We are bound by the web of a thousand bad attitudes and held in the murk of our self indulgence. The Grace of a loving Savior has turned the light on and offers to set us free. It is the only deal I know that is too good to be true, but it is. Coming home is about turning to Him it is about opening the door of our heart and finding in Him a new life.
Joh 10:10 "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. NKJV
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