Regret

Each generation makes of the world more or less the kind of place they dream it should be, and each when its day is done is often in a mood to regret the work of its own hands and to praise the conditions that obtained when it was young.

Lord Conway -- British Statesman ca. 1610

Quite an interesting perspective from four centuries ago, is it not? It is clearly a common experience. People will get ideas into their minds as to how to fix the world, but they do not always think through those ideas logically. Many people's ideals come more from a t.v. show, or an online video that they watched, or maybe a song they listened to, rather than from anything with more depth than a nursery rhyme.

Being convinced of their own genius, people will fight tooth and nail to accomplish their goals -- some even resorting to murder if they discover someone who appears to be thwarting their plans. The saddest thing is, as I said above, that they are passionate about their ideas, but it is a passion without knowledge. They have no idea that they are pursuing something that is self-destructive.

Take, for example either abortion or sodomy (they both lead to genocide). Those promoting them appear to have no idea that if they got their way in society, then the world would end in a generation. All babies would be killed, and no one would have any more. Thus, like I said, this would result in the death of the whole world. Yet, I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they have not thought through the consequences of their ideas (the devil, of course, has thought through it and loves it).

The positive aspect of the quote above is where it says that when people see the disaster they have caused then they will "regret" it. That is what we need to pray for now. That those pursuing all these various forms of evil on our society will come to regret the direction of their ideas even before they are implemented. Let us pray that God will grace us with the ability to help them turn their hearts and thus the course of the entire world.