Another killing in the name of nothing! I am praying for the kids of those cops in Texas, and Baton Rouge, LA today. What will we tell their children? Where are leaders in the Democratic or Republican party, or even the White House?
As Western culture walked away from the God Who he is there, we're paying a huge prize for that ignorance and disobedience. The problem maybe not be what we think it is. It is the issue of the heart, a godless heart without God and his rules. Truth has left the public square, the church has become nominal, and the Christians are lukewarm in their belief of the Bible and their walk with God. Secularization has pushed religion on the peripheral of hopelessness.
“Expect neither truth,” she says, “nor consolation from men. I am she who formed you, and who alone can teach you what you are. But you are now no longer in the state in which I formed you. I created man holy, innocent, perfect. I filled him with light and intelligence. I communicated to him my glory and my wonders. The eye of man saw then the majesty of God. He was not then in the darkness which blinds him, nor subject to mortality and the woes which afflict him. But he has not been able to sustain so great glory without falling into pride. He wanted to make himself his own centre, and independent of my help. He withdrew himself from my rule; and, on his making himself equal to me by the desire of finding his happiness in himself, I abandoned him to himself. And setting in revolt the creatures that were subject to him, I made them his enemies; so that man is now become like the brutes, and so estranged from me that there scarce remains to him a dim vision of his Author. So far has all his knowledge been extinguished or disturbed! The senses, independent of reason, and often the masters of reason, have led him into pursuit of pleasure. All creatures either torment or tempt him, and domineer over him, either subduing him by their strength, or fascinating him by their charms, a tyranny more awful and more imperious. Pascal
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