The World Needs to Know God
It is distressing to see people we are close to searching for meaning in the chaos of this world. The frustration is in knowing the plan of God – at least in outline – and living daily with faith and not being able to share that peace of mind with others.
God is working out His purpose. Most minds are not open to understand, even though they seek meaning in various ways.
The human mind is not open unless God opens it. And there is a factor that each carnal mind has which contributes to the chaos surrounding us.
God has given each person born a spirit that makes us different from animals. It is not the Holy Spirit, but it is a spirit from God. Job refers to it as a spirit in man. “But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding” (Job 32:8). It is this spirit which makes a physical brain a mind. It imparts intellect – the ability to think and reason – to know and understand.
Since this spirit is given by God, it creates in man a yearning. A spiritual yearning. Unlike animals, the human mind is seeking something beyond just the physical. Of course, it cannot obtain what it seeks because it is limited – closed off since the Garden of Eden.
So in the realm of man, he will try to fulfill this yearning by using the mind to reason. For example, theology is man’s reasoning as to what God is. The upshot is that man’s mind will ascribe spiritual factors to things apart from God, since he doesn’t know God, nor can he.
Religion fails to fulfill because it is not of God. Other things become substitutes. In western countries in particular, politics has taken on an almost religious role. Marx and his fellow travelers played to man’s penchant to spiritually wander, ever seeking but never finding. Ever supplanting any acknowledgement of there being a God with false theories under the heading of philosophy.
To know God requires an additional spirit – the Holy Spirit. Through Christ, this power connects the human mind directly to God. Those called now, who have repented, been baptized and received the Holy Spirit have a responsibility to portray by a living example, the true way of God. We must live the way of truth. King David understood the importance of God’s law in this regard. “… and Your law is truth … and all Your commandments are truth … The entirety of Your word is truth” (Psalm 119:142,151,160).
Don’t let the chaos of this world detract us from the job at hand. “… Therefore you are My witnesses, says the Lord, ‘that I am God’” (Isaiah 43:12).
As time progresses, events will bring the spotlight more on those who are living a different way – the Way — as mentioned throughout the book of Acts. Those human minds that desire something spiritual will have the opportunity to know the true God by example. God’s intent for His people is clear, “’For as the sash clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me’ says the Lord, ‘that they may become My people, for renown, for praise and for glory …” (Jeremiah 13:11).
The world needs to know God and His truth. That is our job at hand.
Brian Orchard
