The digital age, toilet paper and the Gospel.
Here's a video that captures the reality of how digital technology is changing our world as we know it. Yet it also conveys that some things are hard to change, will never change or are simply timeless. Watch, see and laugh. (Please refresh to upload video)
Three thoughts hit me as I watched this video:
First, we can try to change or replace certain things but the reality is we can't.
It seems as paperless as people want our world to be, paper is not leaving anytime soon, specially the one Emma slipped under the door.
This is true of the Gospel. For years the media and others have declared that God is dead and yet the truth of God and His message of love and salvation do not show any signs of waning.
While it's true that "cultural Christianity" is slipping, real Christianity is on the rise in a big way all over the world. A Christianity where people are becoming genuine followers of Christ and are not just born to a religion they may or may not truly believe in.
Secondly, it's hard to imagine our world without certain things. Like no toilet paper.
Now imagine a world without the Gospel. The big mistake we often make is to think that we are all naturally good. Actually we are naturally evil and wicked.
Check-out any two year old and you'll find out quickly that you don't need to teach them to be selfish, self-centered, self-conscious or to have self-pity. They were born that way.
Take Christianity out of our world and we'd be back to infanticide, idol worship, leaving the poor, downtrodden and the sick to fend for themselves.
Lastly, some things will never change and are simply timeless.
Without the Gospel of Jesus Christ, our world will be enmeshed in idolatry of self. A world that will produce greed, lust and everything else in between. It would be like a world without oxygen that has been swallowed up by viruses and bacteria.
More than just toilet paper think of a world without oxygen. Something we cannot reinvent digitally. The Gospel is the anti-virus, anti-bacteria remedy to a world in sin that is fast in decay. Without it our world will be a very different place.
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,..but all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."
Bottom line, some things will never change. Have a great week connecting with God and others. Ciao'
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