This Broken World

One thing that almost anyone, even unbelievers will agree on is two things about nature. One, that is a very orderly and efficient world, the realm of nature just works, and it works well, certain laws that never waver, symbiotic relationships, the natural order of things is in one word: Good.
The second thing about nature is that. . . . it is broken. Anyone who takes the time to look and consider it finds that in the midst of its order and efficiency, something is definitely WRONG. Sickness, death, disfunction, mutations, many things just aren't right. Something is broken, jaded, distorted, and chaotic.
The question is: What is it? What is broken and what made it so wrong?

It's like walking in the desert and finding a Porsche Convertable on a sand dune. It has a nice body, it has transmission, a motor, a steering wheel, everything, but yet, it won't run, it can't go properly, and you don't know what is wrong with it.

Is it nature that made this so wrong? Was it Mother Nature? Was God a stupid and ignorant creator that didn't care how He made things?

Or was it us?

It seems the more that nature and enviroment is left alone, the more it flourishes. But when Men come in and change it, take over, even try to correct, it becomes flawed. Even when we try to make things better with vitamins, chemicals, and electric additions, it only causes new sicknesses and things we never had before. Of which we try to fix again and make even worse.

Is it not possible that God has prevented us from finding the cure for the common cold for a reason? Indians never had good shelter, medicine, or modern ways of protection, but if we lived the way they did, then we wouldn't survive, and when they came into contact with us, they would get sick and die with simple things like the common cold.

The bible says that "Man brought sin into the world, and sin brought DEATH."

We ruined this wonderful world and are continuing to do it. Perfection stays Perfection unless something is added to it . . . . imperfection, the tiniest bit of imperfection causes the most perfect thing to become worthless.

The word of God reveals this to us. It's like the driver's manual for the Porsche. After reading it we can see something that we were incapable of seeing before. The entire front end of the car is caved in. We remember and realize that the day we were born, we drove the car into the tree of Pride and destroyed it. Even though our Father told us not to, we did it anyway.

This is a broken world, saved only by the fact that the maker of it is willing to forgive his children if they repent and change. How gracious this is. And not only that but He tells us that if we don't then He will punish us. And if we do, then this wonderful craftsman who made this car in a week, will give us something he's been working 2000 years on. We know this, but many of us reject it so blindly.

Most likely, 80 percent of the people in your church will be going to Hell when they die. It's a startling fact, but in America, where leisure is so prevalent and one-time prayer salvation is the theology, we don't truly know what it is to be a christian. WE BROKE THIS WORLD!!! Shouldn't we then be wanting to make it better with all we have? If we are truly sorry for what we've done, we won't continue doing it.

Thank God he can save this Broken World, we are breaking it more and more everyday.