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The world just keeps spinning and spinning in its place.  The ebb and flow of humanity is relentless throughout the ages, reaching, striving, rising, failing, repeating.  We persist, in every age, to perfect beautiful forms of godliness that deny the God Who's idea we were from the beginning.  With every passing age we do it just a little better, reach just a little higher than before, succeeding in banishing some major evils.  Yet, with every age, humanity fails to realize its own finite, corruptible nature, and gives birth to new evils, more subtle, more reprehensible.  While enjoying a level of freedom and prosperity unequaled in near history and the technological wonders these have fostered, the burden of humanity's nature to misuse itself (sin) has never been heavier, nor has it been more threatening.  The world is desperately searching for a leader that can enhance its goodness, its rightness, and depose its baseness.

There are monarchs, prime ministers, presidents, dictators, communists, socialists, democrats, republicans, independents, religions and denominations with and without divine authority, atheists, monotheists, polytheists:  they are all merely hired servants, babysitters of humanity vying, trying to soothe the collective cry.  Each of these entities perceives its own cause as the solution.  Each reasons that if they can just include "this," or exclude "that" we will see Utopia occur right before our eyes.  But even inside the purist of motives is hidden the master of puppets pulling the strings of the original sin:  desire for control-self worship.

Reduced to its lowest common denominator, humanity is a person:  body, mind, and spirit-created in His Image.  The body cries out for health, the mind cries out for peace, and the spirit cries out for communion, from which emerges purpose.  They were all lost at the fall of Adam and Eve.  The hired hands or "sitters" can give only social communism to fill the need for health and well-being.  In their minds, the absence of violence is equivalent to the peace of mind we all pine for.  And in the place of deep communion and purpose, they can only offer the idea of usefulness to the State to soothe the cry of the human spirit. 

But, within each person is the desire for eternal things, infinite things such as faith, hope, and love.  These eternal things are diametrically opposed to the cheap, secular imitations offered by the "sitters," yet, they exist in each lowest common denominator.  The secular humanist will say that the universe came to be completely devoid of any personality, divinity, or anything supernatural.  Yet the word they use to describe all of the space/time continuum and the matter we know of is the word "universe," which means "spoken word:" a word that points directly to, and actually assumes the knowledge and faith in, a personal, divine, and supernatural power-God.

The cry of the soul of mankind is for rightness- of well-being (health), of relationship (peace), and of communion and purpose.  These eternal things can only emanate from an eternal, incorruptible, and divine being with creative source and will, and can never be replicated by anything corruptible (un-divine).  Everything humanity has cried out for was present in a baby who was born to a young Jewish virgin in the hills of Judea about two thousand years ago.  He heard the cry of humanity and was sent to soothe all the pain, to make right what was wrong, to bring reconciliation between humanity and its Father, the Creator.  And as He hung on a cross bearing the sin of all humanity throughout all the ages, doing only what a man who is God can do, he cried out, "Eloi!  Eloi!  Lama sabachtani?"  He allowed Himself to be forsaken by His Father, in order that mankind could be included in relationship with the Divine for all of eternity, which is everything humanity was created to want or need.

He is before all things, and in him all things have being.  And he is the head of the body, the church:  the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.  For God in full measure was pleased to be in him; through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.  And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one in the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:  if you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.  Colossians 1.17-23