Genesis 3:8-15;2 Cor. 4:13-15:1; Mark 3:20-35
As
technology continues to advance, more and more of the devices that we use have
moved from the specific purpose for which they were created to multiple
purposes. The best example of this integration has to be mobile phones.
Originally designed to bring portability to voice communication, they evolved
to include text messaging and email and now have full internet connectivity
with a host of applications. Today's smart phone has far more computing power
than the PCs of a decade ago. It seems that among the features of a smart
phone, voice communication ranks fairly low both in importance and use. Never
mind that the mobile phone was originally created for this very purpose.
While we
have gown comfortable with technology advancing to the point that devices lose
their original purpose, losing sense of our purpose has proven to be disastrous
to us as a people. While it has had a role in this problem, it's simplistic and
naïve to blame technology for our lost sense of purpose. Despite the mind
boggling changes in technology in our lifetime, it continues to be a tool
subject to our use and under our control. Forces other than technology are
behind our loss of identity and purpose.
If not
technology, what's behind our loss of the purpose for which we've been created?
The answer is found in our culture's ever increasing acceptance of the thinking
that we have evolved from lower life forms and, along with it, our rejection of
the idea that we were created by God for a purpose. We've embraced Darwinism as
a world view because it frees us to do, think, and be whatever we desire, but
it has stripped us of real and lasting purpose by insisting that we understand
of ourselves as products of randomness rather than design and impressing upon
us that our lives are governed by accidents instead of divine intent. We are,
according to this view of man, simple and finite creatures. In its quest to
understand what we cannot know, science has dismissed us as unique in God's
creation and robbed us of the very purpose for which we were created: eternal
life with Christ. But God insists on making His intent for us known. He will
not sit idle while we perish. To this end He has given us His Son, who joyfully
reveals the Kingdom and the very purpose for which we've been made.
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