Read Hebrews 12, Hosea 19  

What Price Progress?

   “Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.” Revelation 2:4

     The World at large and America in particular has achieved the highest level of progress the world has ever known. Advancement in every technological and intellectual area has been unprecedented.

     The time involved in doing routine household chores has been cut by as much as 80 percent thanks to household appliances.

     The abundance of leisure time now equals or surpasses the work time required to provide an abundant standard of life for many people. 

     All this being true, why is moral decadence surpassing the dark of the darkest ages?  Why are divorces, addictions, teenage pregnancies, abortions, prison populations, national and personal debt, monetary and energy crises, and any number of other ills at all-time highs?

     Somewhere along the yellow brick road of progress and advancement of civilization, virtue has all but disappeared.  The God of the Bible has been replaced by the man-made gods of power, pleasure, prestige, and possessions.

     The virtues of loving and serving God and loving and serving others have been replaced by the vices of loving ourselves and exploiting and using others.

     We had better get back, and get back quickly, to that right relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ and the virtues and values that this relationship imparts.

   Father, forgive our foolish ways and restore unto us and all the world the peace and joy of Your salvation.   In Jesus' name, Amen

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