It is, isn’t it? For everyone but those totally blind and
ignorant of the times in which we live and what is happening. Certainly it is for all those true believers
in the Lord Jesus Christ. For those
believers, staying focused on Jesus is essential to not drifting off into
sadness and depression.
William Wordsworth wrote those
words in the title above in a poem in 1802.
He was concerned about the industrial revolution, that age in which
humanity suddenly discovered what it could do with advanced machines and
organization techniques. Factories and
mills were growing fast with workers were working long hard days therein. I understand he was concerned about the materialism
and the separation of people from the natural world, the natural environment.
Well, today we can apply his same
words to our world, although instead of being concerned about the industrial
revolution we are concerned about the implications of the modern computer and
other technology on all our lives, especially children, and about the fall away
from God, the ever growing materialism, the focus in entertainment and
elsewhere on sensual pleasures and violence, the massive growth in deception
and delusion.
Another great line Wordsworth
wrote in the same poem was
We have given our hearts away…
Well, the world surely has. True believers in the Lord have not, and that
is why their hearts ache at what they see and hear. That is why the world is too much with us,
late and soon.
But we must persevere. We must keep our eyes on Jesus.
We know the end of the
story. We know who has won. We have read the end of the book. We cannot give up now. We must each finish
the race God has given us.
Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!
(October 2017)
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© 2017 by John Newlin
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