Burning Flowers

Our World Is In Shambles

Our world is in shambles.
By the seams, our world is collapsing.
People against people. 
Nation against nation. 
No one for one another.
Who is for us?
No one is on Earth.
We openly hate one another.
We can't forgive and let go of someone's hurt towards us. 
We openly accept people's wrongdoing and say it's "okay" to do them.
We throw people in jail just for saying "have a nice day."
Whatever is good, we reject; what is evil, we entertain.
We say "love is love" yet we show no love towards those who disagree with us.
We persecute those who do what we do.
We point out those in red shoes among the white, instead of giving those with red shoes white shoes.
Instead of lending a hand to those who are low, we lend judgement. 
In a country that has the First Amendment "religious freedom and freedom of speech", we don't spread it to everyone. Only to those who do spread it have known that freedom isn't free but was given to us. By who? 
Certainly it wasn't George Washington. Was it William Shakespeare? Lincoln? Dr. Seuss? Albert Einstein? Steven Hawking? Bill Gates? Steve Jobs?
No.
Who could it be then?
It has to be someone that came from the beginning. Who was there when everything was formed? How was everything formed?
There must be someone that can break these chains of bondage, set us apart from one another, give us the peace that this world could never offer, give us a salvation that no mortal could ever give.
Someone who separates the light from the darkness.
Someone who didn't come for a selfish reason, but for humanity as a whole.
Someone who performed something so loving and so selfless, that He laid His own life down for us, knowing full well that some would reject Him, or not even come to know Him at all.
His name? Jesus. The Son of God.
He stepped down from His place in Heaven and took on a new form; the form that we bear: human. Why did He do this? What did He get out of it? What did He get back from doing this thing that He didn't even want to do? 
He didn't want us to go without Him, and He certainly didn't want Heaven without us. He came to Earth in the form of a baby so He could live a life just as we did, do, and will. 
Whatever trial we go through, He was tempted in the same way, and what we feel, He feels as well.
The Gospel is the good news, but there is the bad news before it. "Bad news?"
Yes.
The bad news: from the beginning of human history, we went against what we were told. We ate from the Tree of Knowledge, being tempted by the devil and listening to him instead of God. 
Since then, we have been born into sin, and nothing on Earth can take away that sin. How do we get rid of it?
Jesus is the only One who can turn water into wine, and He is the only One who can walk on water. Just as that, He is the only One that can take away sin. Repentance, acceptance of Jesus into our hearts, and turning from the sin is how we obtain forgiveness, as well as forgiving others.
In a world so broken, on the brink of the end,
Jesus wants to take us to the place where He'll be, with no hurt, no pain, no hate, only love, lots of joy, no murder, no sadness or depression, and no sin. 
In a world full of hardened hearts, there is nothing greater than the heart and love of the Almighty that has created us.