American society, during the last five years, has seen a catastrophic decline in its moral underpinnings. From allowing men to compete in women’s sports, to allowing minors to decide if they want life altering sex change operations, and to allowing, in the last three years, eight million illegal immigrants to cross our American borders, is it any wonder the very fabric of this one great nation is in massive decline.
The question facing America today is how can this moral rot be stopped. I am totally convinced that unless we return to the basic principles contained in the pages of the Bible our decline as a nation will only accelerate.
Angel Torres rightly gives us the solution to America’s decaying morals when he shared: “Truly, God’s Word is a guiding light amidst the darkness of our world. As such, we ought to consult what He has said and measure our own ideas and thoughts against the standard that is His Word. After all, none of us are greater or more knowledgeable than the One who made us!”1
Sadly, mankind is on a desperate search to fill the vacuum in his heart with everything but the answers contained in God’s Word. And since The Bible is the only source of divine revelation from the one who created us, it stands to reason that He would know more about how to enjoy life than anyone else. But to ignore the Scriptures means that we are leaving the ultimate answer book on how we humans can function at peak morality, maximum peace, total joy, and positive mental health.
Our soul is in desperate need of repair and according to the Bible all of our human attempts to satisfy its deep yearnings for peace, joy, and meaning will fall short until we make our peace with God through Jesus Christ. You see all religions have left man reaching out to gods that can never deliver because they are but mere inventions of our human intellect. Only the God of the Bible can cure our sin sick soul and restore our hurting mental health through spiritual surgery. Until our sin issue is addressed we will never find the antidote for our hurting souls.
The blueprint, the antidote, and the answer to all of the deepest yearning of our soul can be found in the manual for our human existence – our Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth – the Holy Bible. I have found that if I want to know how to live life to the fullest I need to go to the Creator of my soul – Jesus Christ; and the book that is all about Him. While the golden rule is good only Christianity offers us the total solution for healing our hurting souls and experiencing positive mental health.
If only our nation would come back to the book that it was basically founded on, the Bible, we would see a country that is no longer falling apart. In closing we would all be wise to follow the advice of Vance Havner who once said: “If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn’t!”2
1 The Creator in Athens. It’s no secret that we are living in a… | by Angel Torres | Jan, 2024 | Medium
2 Past Masters: Vance Havner: An Unbeaten Path – Sermons & Articles (preaching.com)
Praying for our nation and the whole world that their eyes may be opened to the reality that the answers to all our problems are found only on The One who created us, because outside of Him we are nothing.