The Folly Of Worldly Wisdom
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Has
not the world made great progress, intellectually, since Paul’s day? Is
this not evident on every hand? Of course! For one thing, our
physicists have taught us how to kill each other much faster now.
Moscow, London or Washington could be wiped out in a few minutes, and
this is a considerable saving in time!
And
think what has been accomplished in the field of electronics! We can
now keep intelligent people glued to their TV sets for hours on end,
their eyes riveted to shows which are often unwholesome, but sometimes
at least entertaining and occasionally even informative. And think of
the many time-saving devices in our homes! We are all saving so much
time that we cannot even be hospitable to each other and our mental
institutions are over-crowded with patients who have collapsed from
enjoying all this leisure time.
Then
consider our achievements in transportation! Our thoroughfares are
crowded with automobiles whose drivers are getting jangled nerves in
traffic jams and choking in the deadly carbon monoxide fumes, or else
racing at high speeds, which is great fun until suddenly some object
looms up ahead as if from nowhere. And the airplane! This is really
something! We can now fly through the air with so much noise and
commotion that innocent people for miles around our larger airports are
kept awake nights. Of course, the minority should be willing to suffer
cheerfully for the majority and it is important that great numbers of
people get places fast, fast, fast.
But
all this is nothing compared with what is going on in outer space. We
now have all sorts of things orbiting around out there — and it’s not
all debris. It includes some very sensitive instruments, serving us
faithfully from day to day. Indeed, men from our earth have actually
landed on the moon and have brought some of its rocks and dust back with
them. Soon, maybe, we will have people from beautiful New England, or
the breath-taking Rockies, or the lovely shores of Oregon, living on its
barren wastes. Wonderful prospect! And we can always get the necessary
billions from the taxpayers.
But
the best of it is that while we have aspired to reach the moon, and
even Mars, we’ve got a Great Society going on earth; a Society whose
wild pagan music has all but replaced the beautiful melodies and
harmonies of the classics, and whose twisted “art” reflects the
bewildered confusion of our times; a Society in which children and young
people are corrupted, women are robbed and raped, and men, women and
children are murdered in the streets. Oh, it’s wonderful! The young
people demonstrating at our universities for the right to use filthy
language if they want to, and demanding a greater voice in running our
institutions of learning; the minority groups marching to protest their
various grievances, the rioting and bloodshed, the burning and looting!
And meantime, ever so quietly, our most sophisticated mob syndicates are
running fine motels and other business organizations — and pouring an
ever-increasing flow of narcotics, pornographic literature, etc., into
our enlightened community, judges and juries doing what they can to
favor the criminals and, should any of them land behind prison bars, the
parole boards are there to help get them released as soon as possible,
so that our happy society may benefit from their experience and our
mental and penal institutions may be further enlarged. Surely we’ve
never had it so good.
Thanks be to God for the truth of Gal. 1:4:
“[Christ] gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world [or, “age”] according to the will of God and our Father.”
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