When people lose a sense of the divine they also lose respect for humanity. Instead of our being the product of love forged from the earth into the image of our maker, humans become an end-product of an evolutionary process on its way to who knows what. We cease to be special. We are merely a step on a lonely road with no purpose other than to reproduce. All the achievements of mankind are nothing but a byproduct to fill up our time after we have bred and are waiting to die. What is so sad is some proponents of evolution are now claiming they have proved it and the rest of us who do not agree with them are less bright. Some of them actually call themselves “the brights.” How utterly contemptuous. They need such pride and self-grandeur because that is all they are ever going to have. Self-love is such an empty trap.
Now I have fallen into the same contemptuousness. Instead I need to care. For the God they deny loves them dearly. Jesus’ words in John 5:24 are so wonderful. The moment we make Him the Lord of our lives we have entered eternity. We are already living forever on our way into a kingdom of unfolding promises. A year ago I got a new knee. In pre-op the doctor was leaning over me. An instant later he said, “It’s finished. It went well.” I was in post-op. In John 11 Jesus said His friend Lazarus was sleeping. He woke him.
Paul writes in I Thessalonians 4 the following, “The Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: . .”
What a stark contrast. Just who are “the brights?”
Written by Roger Bothwell on September 29, 2009
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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