We Are Not Interested In This Question Anymore

                Hamlet pondered the thought....'is it better to live in this world of troubles....or die'....."To be, or not to be..." Should one just choose on their own to leave? Ah....but what is next wondered Shakespeare's character? Better to stay....for he did not know. The Apostle Paul thought that it would be better for him to leave.....according to God's will....not our own....but it was better for others....and for God's glory....for him to stay.
                C. S. Lewis was a chief figure in the development of evangelicalism as I came into the faith....and well before it. As lost as the American culture may have been in the 60s....we pondered things like the existence of God....and many were poets although they didn't even know it....(hmm)....and we can see this in the lyrics of so many songs....and how we responded to them. I've related a few times in these posts how a Pulitzer Prize book....The Denial Of Death....and a classic The True Believer....were topics I was considering as I was lost....this about 1980....but among other books.....God used Mere Christianity to address my lost but inquiring mind....probably the chief book at the time for someone pondering if God did really exist.
                 We are not the same people today.....as our make-up seems to have changed significantly....as well as the paradigm of life that surrounds us. We don't seem to ponder life anymore....to ask those questions that we had at least asked in those infamous 60s. As we read the daily news of some of the violent around us....it appears that they could not care less about Hamlet's consideration on what comes after death.
                  The Progressive certainly does not know for what he fights....for if he did....he would have second thoughts. As for us....we have become coarse....in our language and in our thinking. It reminds me of where a nation can wind up if it is not careful....Germany in the early 1930s for one....where the communists fought with the anti-communists....with the established church compromising what they had left of the gospel to join in. The former won out in Russia....the latter in Germany.....but alas both lost everything.
                  Judgment is coming....and is already here....that is for certain....and this not an impetuous response by God.....but after a half century of increasing warnings....and much time for us to reconsider our ways. Will He awaken our pulpits....and move upon the hearts and minds of many of us in the process....in order to deal with what is ahead.....or will we remain a small remnant in Vanity Fair? What will God do at this time.....that is the question.