Time moves so swiftly! I’m sure you have heard it before. But for those of us who come to the later time of life and are able to look back, it literally has flown by. Now that I can look back and see things from a different perspective, especially as a pastor, I have noticed many changes in our culture that are rather alarming.

One of the grave concerns in this post-modern culture is that there are no absolutes regarding life. Everything has become “relative.” Each person wants to do their own thing and it is all right as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. This philosophy leaves a society without any roots or foundation on which to build meaning and purpose and I see a culture that has no direction or fulfillment. We have lost our way and have become so self absorbed. Life, in a secularist humanistic culture replaces God with self and believes that man can solve the problems of the world. But look around us and see that our world is in worse shape than it has ever been.

The answer is not found within us but in our commitment to a greater cause beyond us. We have found that we are our worst enemy. That greater cause is only found in the one who created man in the first place. The great philosopher, Paschal, of many centuries ago said, “God has placed with man a spiritual vacuum that only He himself can fill. Man has tried to fill that vacuum with so many other things and has come up empty every time.”

I believe that answer to the mess that man has made of our culture is to fill that void by placing our lives in God through Jesus Christ who came to “give us life and have it abundantly.”