Our readings in this series are from the book, Understanding the Times. Here is a brief excerpt from page 180:
“A question arises as we work to understand our times concerning the decency, goodness, and beauty which every day confront us. Our secular age is a generation in flight from God. They have embraced the gods of self and happiness, are driven in life by narcissistic and materialistic self-interest, have thrown off the Law of God and its counsels for liberty and love, and are rushing pell-mell toward some calamitous ruin of the planet and all its inhabitants.
“We don’t have to look very far to see that the tares of rebellion and unbelief are everywhere being sown, taking root, and flourishing. Sin, corruption, wickedness, oppression, abuse, destruction, misery, and death are so common, that we can easily become inured to them.
“So we might wonder, Why, given that the tares are so many, and so widely dispersed throughout the field of the world, isn’t there more evil than is presently in evidence? Why does so much of what is good, pleasing, happy, decent, loving, generous, compassionate, and edifying exist at all?”
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