Devotional : Alienation Crucified
Stark though it may sound, confrontational though it may be, the Bible compares the unredeemed to the walking dead. Outside of Jesus Christ, men and women are “dead” in their trespasses and sins.
The
Bible’s picture of mankind ought to temper our expectations for what
life can look like outside of God’s kingdom. Education is vitally
important. Legislation is clearly necessary. But neither one, nor both
of them together, is able to deal with the basic issues of the human
heart. Worldly remedies only take us so far because they cannot address
the greatest problem: that our natural condition is that of being “dead
in the trespasses and sins in which [we] once walked … by nature
children of wrath, like the rest of mankind” (Ephesians 2:1, 3).
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