Humanism is Alive and Well!

I find it quite interesting that all kinds of people are trying to analyse what has gone wrong with the world, and have arrived at some very strange conclusions. They pride themselves in being clever thinkers, intelligent and shrewd, yet they consistently ‘miss the wood for the trees.’  They are so big into humanism, even of the Christian variety, that they make themselves into real fools.  They are the people who put humanism up against the Gospel, and think they are clever by so doing.  They do what humanists have always done – they exclude the supernatural from their thinking altogether, and see man as the centre of everything.  For example, when they cannot understand a thing, they reject it, why?  Because the human mind is the judge of all truth. The only thing that is true is what his mind can accept.  The mind is the controlling factor in everything.  Therefore when a preacher brings a clear Gospel message that challenges the status quo, it is roundly rejected by the humanists in the congregation.  

If "man is the measure of all things," as humanism teaches, then we are in the deepest black hole of meaninglessness imaginable.  There is simply no hope!  If "the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart," then there is no solution to this chronic problem.  There is nothing but darkness, a "darkness that can be felt," as was the case in Egypt before the Hebrews were delivered under God's mighty hand.  

But.and here's the really good news: while "the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart," then a solution has been provided by the very God Whose existence the humanists deny!  To look to the problem for a solution to that problem is the measure of humanist thinking, if indeed it can be described as thinking at all, then dear help us! If there is no supernatural solution to the problems of mankind, then we're undone!  

But there is such a solution!  The sad thing is that no one within officialdom will even look 'outside' of man for the solutions that men crave.  Government agencies focus in on man solutions, and refuse to go down God's way.  Take Social services as an example.  Families in the profoundest imaginable messes and who are under the case of social services find themselves at a total loss to know what remedy to apply to these problems.  They have tried all the human remedies that have, but the situation goes from bad to worse.  Senior social workers are appointed, at considerable cost, to try to get a remedy to the situation, but all they can offer is another man-made solution.

There are situations where the biggest obstacle to turning to Gospel remedies is moral.   Sufferers prefer their sin to the Saviour from sin.  Sin is a destructive agent that is not their friend,even though they think it is.  They cuddle and nurture their chosen sin,therefore they will not depart from it.  Their sinful lifestyle is so closely identified with them as to be inseparable from them - as they think.  They love their sin, but they hate the only Saviour from sin. 

The only remedy that government agencies deliberately refuse to countenance is also the only remedy that will work - the Gospel. What is man's basic problem?  His rebellion against the God Who made him and ho will one day be His judge.  His problem is his disobedience against the will of God as revealed in the Bible.  His problem is pride as seen in his refusal to come to Christ and seek His deliverance.

But this old despised Gospel still has the power of God to transform and situations.  people have tried everything else; why not embrace the Gospel and see what God can do in a surrendered life!