What’s Happening To Our World?
Recently during a conversation I had an outburst of anger directed toward the world. Afterwards I realized how I really feel and ever since then I’ve felt horrible. The basic overview of the anger was that the world has gone to hell, there’s almost no good left. The world will never be saved, people will never get better.
Q. Recently during a conversation I had an outburst of anger directed toward the world. Afterwards I realized how I really feel and ever since then I’ve felt horrible. The basic overview of the anger was that the world has gone to hell, there’s almost no good left. The world will never be saved, people will never get better. What little good that’s left is fading away every day. God’s presence has been rejected all over the world. I feel that there’s absolutely no hope whatsoever left in this world. I can’t even imagine what God feels about what’s happened. I know hatred is not what I should be feeling but I don’t know how to stop it.
A. Paul wrote something quite similar to your statement in Romans 3:10-18.
“There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know. There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
To some degree, everyone who truly understands what sin is all about winds up feeling like you do. When we understand what God created for us and what we’ve done to it it’s hard to feel any differently.
The trick to maintaining your sanity is to direct your anger toward the source of all sin in the world, Satan. When you do your anger toward mankind will turn to pity for all the people who’ve been deluded into thinking that his way is the right way.
Paul also said, “And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” (2 Cor. 4:3-4)
The less people know about an after life, the more they become focused on this one and getting all they can out of it, even at the expense of their loved ones. Imagine how they’ll feel when they awaken after their death to discover the eternity they’ve inherited.
Perhaps you’ve come to feel like you do because God is calling you to be a voice in the wilderness in some way, an instrument for mitigating the hopelessness and despair these people feel. Ask Him.
