Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from Sunday’s service and message “Making Sense of the World”.
After listening to and watching what so many people are doing and saying, I repeatedly hear the question “what is wrong with people, why are they doing this, what is going on”. These questions and others like them are attempts to make sense of the world in which we live.
Some of the things we are witnessing defies common sense, self and common interest, defies obvious truth and facts, is completely irrational, callous and without feelings for the pain and suffering of others.
There seems to be a constant stream of such occurrences and madness. So many people are angry with someone or something. About the only time people appear to be happy is when their side or team is winning or has won. Outside of that, there is a lot of hand ringing and questioning about what is going on.
The problem is attempting to make sense out of something that is incapable providing it. People are looking in and to the world and the things therein to make sense of itself. That is like asking a chair, a house or a bucket to make sense of itself and what you are doing with or in it. The world cannot provide us with the answers we seek and need any more than these objects can tell us what they are doing here or what their functions are.
Can that which is created change the reason or purpose it was created? The answer is absolutely no! If it is capable, it might do or be used for something other than its created reason, purpose and function, but that doesn’t change the why it is.
When someone or something is not functioning according to its created purpose, the possibility of it doing or be used for something that doesn’t make sense continues to grow. If God created man and man is not doing what God created him to do, then doing what does not make sense becomes highly likely.
The bible, observations and experiences lead me and others to believe that God created man for the purpose of communion with Him. When people don’t live according to that purpose, it begins to make sense why we see people doing and saying things that don’t make sense.
Those who fail to understand and perform their purpose will live and die never fulfilling the reason why they were created in the first place and trying in vain to make sense of the world and their own life.
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Pastor Jordan
