First, I want to thank Oak Park Baptist for their dedication to praying every Thursday, keeping up a prayer watch of 24 hours. Today, this is your day! They are also being joined by Parkview Baptist because they cover the 15th of every month.
I first heard the expression, "Ghost in the Machine," by a technology writer who was talking about the inexplicable way that computers sometimes act. Now, a couple of years later, I looked it up and discovered that it is a little more philosophical, referring to the primitive parts of our brains where hate, anger, and other destructive forces live.
I was listening to a radio show while driving home one night, and it depressed me. It was a bleak assessment of our American society and culture, and it left me with little hope for this nation. But then I remembered that real change is supernatural. The hopelessly embedded sin that leaves us with cycles of degradation, redemption, and apathy, followed by degradation again, does not get the final victory. There is an eternal life that outlives this cursed planet. And until then, "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:2.
In this present time, we are given a new "Ghost" for our machine: the Holy Spirit, "who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory." Ephesians 1:14.
This is why we pray: not just to change our temporal situations, but the eternal situations of our fellow citizens, who will outlive this sin-cursed world if we do not give up!
No comments:
Post a Comment