NO HISTORICAL PRECEDENCE – Ron McGatlin
The world today faces magnitudes of conditions and situations at levels never before known to mankind. Considering all the massive miracle situations and circumstances recorded in the Holy Bible and all the written books of history, nothing can compare to the massiveness of the world today.
The world population has quadrupled in my lifetime. The world population was estimated at just over 2 billion the year that I was born. Today, it is estimated at over 8 billion people.
The masses of people alive on Earth are breathing its air, drinking its water, eating its food, and creating garbage and sewage.
In addition to that, consider the massive number of fuel-powered vehicles on the ground, on the water, and in the air, along with untold numbers of living pets. Consider the massive amount of grain to feed man and the untold massive number of chickens, cattle, and hogs alive in the world. We will only mention the massive amount of minerals and other substances used to produce hundreds of millions, if not billions, of cell phones, TV sets, computers, and a multitude of other items.
Amazingly all the basic needs of man, including water, food, clothing, and shelter, are supplied from the earth for most of the people of this world.
You may be thinking, “Ron, where are you going with this?”
I understand it reads like it could be leading into an article for a leftist move to world population reduction and controlled distribution of resources.
WHAT IS GOD REVEALING ABOUT ALL THIS TODAY
All of the problems associated with population explosion, and all the disorder of the world come from the lack of mankind being in love with God. And all the tyrannical works of mankind attempting to alleviate or deal with the world’s problems originate in the same lack of in-love relationship with God.
Let me explain that in as few words as I can. Let’s begin by considering this question.
Having water, food, clothing, and shelter, what is the greatest lack or need that remains and creates drive or strong desire in mankind?
There is in all mankind, since the fall of Adam, a vast area of emptiness in the heart of every person. Without understanding it, we all are driven to satisfy that emptiness in our hearts and lives.
Good things that God has provided for our lives become out of balance when we seek to use that provision to satisfy our unrealized emptiness.
Any provision of God can be misused in this way, causing disorder in us and those around us and on out to the world. However, some are more specifically impacting the disorder issues we are focusing on in this article.
Probably the number one drive has to do with God’s order for reproduction. Yes, SEX or ROMANCE is one of the most common go-to provisions used by mankind to try to fill the unknown emptiness in our hearts. It surely is not the only major God-given drive gone wild, so to speak, but it is one of the primary ones.
Communing with God in Spirit and falling in love with Him fully satisfies our empty place so that the God-given provisions can move back into their designed place to do their proper function in our lives. This nor any other provision from God should be taken out of balance trying to fill the emptiness in our lives. This specific population disorder and all the many disorders it causes will no longer exist in a world of people in love with God. Sex and romance will be even more pleasurable and good for us but will, along with all other provisions of God, no longer be used as another god to fill our lack of Love reality in life.
Romance and sex are highly celebrated in modern culture. It is probably impossible to overstate their impact on our lives every day. The theme of romance and sex is present in most advertising and entertainment in the world.
SOME OTHER FALSE GODS
Let’s briefly consider some of the other false gods created in our lives today in an effort to fill our lack of being in love with God.
Money and what it will buy is another big one. Having money is good and right with God. However, loving it or being driven to get more leads to all kinds of evil. The drive for more money is an attempt to fill our empty place that an in-love relationship with God will completely satisfy.
Superiority or being number one, or dominating over others, is another good thing from God that has gone out of order. It is intended by God to lead others to better places in their lives. Domination or control of others is used to satisfy the empty place in our hearts. We become performance oriented and feel great when we are number one but are downcast if we are not. Again, a real in-love relationship with God fills the empty place in our hearts and these disorders will come into balance in love with God.
Religion is another major but often overlooked area or system that can become a major source of filling our empty place. These disorders are easy for Christians to see in other religions especially in their worshiping idols or rituals, observing days, adhering to a set of rules, offerings, sacrifices, and so on. It is harder for us to see that religion may be leading us to worship church systems, days or times, incomplete or false doctrines, priests or pastors, or many other parts of religion without being in love with God.
These are only a few examples of how the world is suffering from not being in love with God. Any provision can become an idol. None of these or anything else can permanently replace our truly missing part of being married to God in a continuous in-love communion with God.
BLOCKING THE PAIN OF EMPTINESS
Literally, our emptiness can drive us insane. Psychologists and psychiatrists treat a huge and Growing number of people with human knowledge and earthly psychological therapeutic remedies or mind-altering drugs. None of these can ever remove the emptiness in the heart. They can only supply some temporary coping mechanisms.
One of the most deadly life consuming temporary remedies are both the prescribed legal and illegal drugs that become strong addictions.