HAVE WE GOTTEN TOO BIG FOR GOD?

We live in a post-industrial age and man can look back on his past and revel in his vast accomplishments. He forges ahead with plans and goals that stupify the imagination. Man basks in his glory and is lifted up in worldly pride.

Man's intellect tells him that we are preeminent on this planet. Man sees himself as the highest in intelligence and at the pinnacle of glory.

And what if anything is he missing?

Is he any happier after all that he has accomplished? Is he more at peace than at anytime in his history? Has what he has brought about allowed him to draw any lasting conclusions? Is he safer? Is his world closer to a dignified unity?

By all accounts man, in spite of his impressive history, has flubbed it up. He has brought down upon himself a misery that he tries in every way to shake off. Though he has labored from sun up to sun down, he is no closer to realizing any true happiness. Man is as distant from his true purpose as he can get. He has strayed, he has gone away, he has not fulfilled his destined hope of realizing mortal satisfaction. And all because man sees himself as merely a physical being with intellect and self-proposed purpose. He denies that he is anything other than a creation of his own doing.

Man needs more. He must reach beyond himself. He must cease looking only within for what is right and good. Man was created in the image of his Creator, and the more that he resists and struggles to exercise this knowledge from his consciousness the more miserable he will become. He will in vain seek to fulfill a destiny without heavenly direction and he will be the more miserable for it. Unless he surrenders his will and bows his heart to He who has called his name more and more miserable will he become.

The God of Heaven calls,
The God of Heaven pleads,
The God of Heaven reaches,
The God of Heaven waits