Could it be that God is using the moral rot of our nation to lead us to despair - a despair that can lead us to examine our own rotten morality and the genuineness of our personal faith? A despair that could drive the lost to their need for the Savior?
The teachings of Jesus Christ must produce despair, because if He means what He says, where are we in regard to it? “Blessed are the pure in heart” (Matthew 5:8)—blessed is the man who has nothing in him for God to censure. Can I come up to that standard?
Could it be that these difficult and baffling times we live in are God's hand of loving discipline - a discipline to get us to let go of our own depraved way of thinking and morality - a discipline that enables us to reach out and grasp Jesus Christ?
When a man has been hard hit and realizes his own helplessness he finds that it is not a cowardly thing to turn to Jesus Christ, but the way out which God has made for him.
There is a passion of pessimism at the heart of human life and there is no ointment for it; you cannot say, “Cheer up, look on the bright side”; there is no bright side to look on.
The entire world is suffering the despairing effects of disease and the moral rot of wicked rulers. There is an overarching sense of cynicism and pessimism in all of human life. There is only one cure and that is God Himself, and God comes to a man in the form of Jesus Christ.
Through Jesus Christ’s redemption the way is opened back to yesterday, out of the blunders and blackness and baffling into a perfect simplicity of relationship to God.
Jesus Christ undertakes to enable a man to withstand every one of the charges made by Satan. Satan’s aim is to make a man believe that God is cruel and that things are all wrong; but when a man strikes deepest in agony and turns deliberately to the God manifested in Jesus Christ, he will find Him to be the answer to all his problems.
Excerpts From: Oswald Chambers. “Our Ultimate Refuge.”
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