There’s no question that we are concerned about the condition of the world in which we live, and rightly so. The question is: “What can we do to make things better?”
The story is told of a young business executive who took some work home to complete for an important meeting the next day. Every few minutes, his five-year-old son would interrupt his train of thought. After several such interruptions, the young executive spotted the evening paper with a map of the world on it. He took the map, tore it into a hundred pieces, and told his son to put the map together again.
He figured that this activity would keep the little guy busy for a long time and he could complete his work. About three minutes later, the young boy came in and told his dad that he had finished. The young executive was astonished and asked his son how he had put the pieces together so quickly. His son replied, “There was picture of a man on the other side, so I just turned it over and put the man together. When I got the man right, the world was right.”
And so it is with our world today. When mankind gets right — our world will be right.
The inspired writer Peter tells us:
“Therefore, laying aside all malice, all guile, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby” (1 Peter 2:1-2).
Are not the above characteristics at the root of the problems that exist in our world today? Beloved, if we can rid our lives of these things, then the world will indeed be a better place in which to live.
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
He figured that this activity would keep the little guy busy for a long time and he could complete his work. About three minutes later, the young boy came in and told his dad that he had finished. The young executive was astonished and asked his son how he had put the pieces together so quickly. His son replied, “There was picture of a man on the other side, so I just turned it over and put the man together. When I got the man right, the world was right.”
And so it is with our world today. When mankind gets right — our world will be right.
The inspired writer Peter tells us:
“Therefore, laying aside all malice, all guile, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby” (1 Peter 2:1-2).
Are not the above characteristics at the root of the problems that exist in our world today? Beloved, if we can rid our lives of these things, then the world will indeed be a better place in which to live.
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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