The events of these past few weeks have truly pointed out how self-centered we are as a nation. Because of the greed of some our financial markets have collapsed, the housing industry has taken a dive and almost dried up, and our government’s answer was to print more money for a bailout. Then the automobile Big Three, after years of mismanagement and caving in to the demands of the UAW for more benefits and bigger paychecks for it members, have found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy. Their response to the situation they found themselves in was an attempt to frighten the nation into meeting their demands with their own financial bailout. The governor of Illinois’s greed and self-centeredness gets exposed when he tries to sell a US Senate seat to the highest bidder, which, by the way doesn’t really shock the political world though shock was feigned by many. When man is self-centered rather than God centered, he has no moral compass!
DeVerne Fromke, in his book, THE ULTIMATE INTENTION, discusses how three different segments of Christendom make man the center of everything.
“The Liberal sees the desperate needs of mankind and would emphasize the social work that needs to be done by man.
The Fundamentalist, while recognizing social needs, knows the emphasis must first be placed on understanding that which God has done for man.
A third segment, often called the holiness groups, insists that all this is too shallow and they would place the emphasis rather on the work which God must do in man.
While each segment carries forward in terms of its emphasis, and the battle may sometimes rage between them, the real issue is altogether missed. It is man they are primarily occupied with. There is another side of the coin which has too long been ignored. It is the side we must consider first if all things are to be properly related to God as the Center. When the work of the church is man-centered – starting with man, centered in his needs, conscious of his welfare, and seeking his blessing – we have the wrong center of gravity. However much God has done for man and in him, man is still out of proper orbit until his deepest and most basic need has been met. This greatest of all man’s needs is an ultimate rectification from himself as the center unto God as the center.”
If there is truly going to be a spiritual Revolution in Florida, or any place else for that matter, it is imperative for those of us who aspire to be Revolutionaries to reset our center. We must move from being man-centered/self-centered to being God centered! From Anthropocentric to Theocentric! That is God’s design and nothing else will work.
“For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. [For all things originate with Him and come from Him; all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in Him] To Him be glory forever! Amen! (Romans 11:36 AMP)
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