Not long ago, I was reading an article from the blog of Laura Hodges Poole. Ms. Poole is a freelance writer with almost three dozen articles, devotions, and short stories in publication. Ms. Poole provides her readers with a review of a book authored by Andy Andrews, an internationally known speaker and novelist whose combined works have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Among the insight the Mr. Andrews gives, he challenges the reader with three challenging
questions:
1) Why do the ages of our world’s greatest civilizations average around two hundred years?
2) Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence — from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back into bondage?
3) How do atrocities in history correlate to life in the 21st century? Are we doomed to repeat past mistakes by not learning from them?
Ms. Poole answers the last question posed in #3 by stating, “Certain mileposts would indicate so.”
Edmund Burke, Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, once made this statement:
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
Among the insight the Mr. Andrews gives, he challenges the reader with three challenging
1) Why do the ages of our world’s greatest civilizations average around two hundred years?
2) Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence — from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back into bondage?
3) How do atrocities in history correlate to life in the 21st century? Are we doomed to repeat past mistakes by not learning from them?
Ms. Poole answers the last question posed in #3 by stating, “Certain mileposts would indicate so.”
Edmund Burke, Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, once made this statement:
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing” (source).Dear reader, in light of the above quote, what are we as Christians doing to let our "light" (godly influence) shine in a dark world of immorality, so that evil will not triumph? (Matthew 5:14-16; cf. Philippians 2:14-16).
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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