It ain't supposed to be like this

Driving down River Road, off to the side was a deer that had apparently been hit by a car. I was saddened to see only a shell of broken bones and bloody remains. After a short time I found myself in heavy traffic on US-1 guessing it was due to an accident. That assumption proved correct as a vehicle was on the side of the road showing evidence the occupants were evacuated by the “jaws of life”. Only the empty shell of the battered, topless vehicle remained which also saddened me.

“It ain’t supposed to be like this” was a line from the movie “Grand Canyon” but it fits appropriately to the way things are in our world. It was never meant to be like this. But it is, only because of sin. People today don’t want to acknowledge sin; even the church glosses over it.

God created all things, the earth, animals, humans, everything. And He saw that it was very good. That’s the way it was suppose to be. But then here’s the serpent and his deception. Everything changes. Everything wrong in this world points back to that one moment in history when Adam and Eve believe the lies of Satan. So instead of being caretakers of the earth and animals; because of sin we hunt the animals for food or pleasure and ravish the lands, sky and sea. Animals once co-existed peacefully with each other but because of sin they are prey to one another. Man was to live together in peace; but because of sin we hurt each other whether it is intentional or by accident. It wasn’t meant to be like this. Sin changed everything. We changed everything.

The thing is we can’t do anything to fix it but God can and He did. He made a way for us; a way of reconciliation.

 

Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. Romans 5:18 NIV

 

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shalt not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged, he who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world and men loved the darkness rather than the Light for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God. John 3:16-21 NASB