A Way That Seems Right

We live in a world where tragedy and brutality abound, despite so many people truly desiring peace.  How is that?  Why is it that even ordinary "nice" people can be complicit in the murder of the friends and neighbours in the massacres that echo disturbingly throughout history?  Jews beaten to death in wartime Germany and her allies.  Babies left to die alone in Rwanda.  Children enslaved and tortured after being sold by their own parents all over the world...

The answer, as always, is in God's word. A single, divinely inspired sentence sums up the truth:

"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 14:12

Down through history, wars, massacres and genocides have started with a bunch of people - nice people, passionate people, even kind people - doing what seemed right to them.

This is where suffering comes from, and this is why we need a saviour.  Not a politician or philosopher or revolutionary, but The Saviour, Jesus Christ.  May He come quickly!