Wisdom Or Folly?
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
That moon shot, some weeks ago, was
really something! We hit the moon, right on target, took 4,319 pictures on the
way, as close as 1,000 feet, and all in extraordinary detail, so that we now
have pictures of the moon 1,000 times sharper than any previously taken.
How proud many of us feel now! How wise
and great we Americans are! Yet, now that our achievement is a few weeks old,
let’s look at it again in the light of the whole picture of American life.
Let’s face it; America is perhaps the
most violent of “civilized” nations — and we can’t seem to curb the rapid
growth in crime.
Our women dare not walk the streets of
many of our larger cities at night — and none of us dare walk through some
localities. From shoplifting to armed robbery, from intoxication to dope
addiction, from assault to murder, crime in America has risen to an all-time
high — and is rising faster all the time.
What good will it do us to achieve
landings on the crust of the moon in, say six or eight years, if in the
meantime we dissipate our moral strength in dishonesty, immorality, vice and
crime? It is in this very connection that St. Paul wrote by inspiration of God:
“For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish foolishness; but
unto us who are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the
prudent” (I Corinthians 1:18,19).
The world, with all its wisdom cannot
save itself. It is only Christ’s death on the cross that can save, for there
our sins were paid for, that we might be “justified freely by [God’s] grace,
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24).
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