What in the world are we doing?

   What in the world are we doing?  That is an excellent question for what is happening today.  Climate change, dirty oil, pcp's, economic chaos and so much more.  It seems we are heading towards the brink of disaster.  A couple of weeks ago, the European leaders got together to avert an economic meltdown.  The only thing that the meeting produced was a delay.  As the the world teeters on the edge men are still not willing to make common sense choices.  Greek civil servants so use to having the government take care of them are rioting in the streets because the government cannot afford these perks any more. In the U.S. unemployment is still hovering above 10% and millions are still looking for jobs with Republicans and Democrats fighting over who is to blame when in reality they  both are. 

   Now this blog is not an economic, social or political expose.  It is a simply asking the question, how did we get here?  Man's greed, indifference, apathy and lack of common sense brought us here.  Simple economics says you cannot spend what you do not have. Sooner or later the gravy train leaves the tracks.  Another fact, you cannot continue pumping billions of tons of fossil fuels into the atmosphere without something happening.  Another fact, greed will always lead to exploitation, the rich, the poor and human woes.  Is there a solution?

   All solutions to the world condition are complex except one.  Jesus Christ came to save mankind.  He reforms men from the inside out and in turn they lead others out of chaos.  For example, 18th England was a dangerous place.  John Wesley saw what was happening in France with the Revolution and saw many of those ideas coming to England.  Democracy is not a bad thing but never when it comes with murder and beheading.  Wesley believe that the only way to reform England was to reform individuasl through the power of Jesus Christ.  He would spend 50 years of his life doing just that and at the end of his time England was totally different.  Reformation and common sense begin in the heart.  What the West needs is a revival and the reformation it brings.  Today let it begin with you.  Let Jesus change your heart.