Dr. A. Loso Chalai
Jesus said “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” ( Mathew 4:4 )
On the Republic Day 2017, President Pranab Mukherjee was jubilant about India’s progress saying that since independence till now, average life span has doubled, literacy increased fourfold and per capita income ten …times. India has progressed much in terms of visible human development. However, when a five year old girl was raped in the capital, Delhi in April 2013, he expressed shock and said: “We must introspect on the erosion of values and identify the cause and find solution for such depravity in our midst.”
During a riot in London leading to massive property damage and looting in 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron lamented saying: “Do we have the determination to confront the moral collapse that is happening in our land?” Following repeated shootings and mass killing in America in June 2012, President Obama called for “Soul searching” in utter helplessness and frustration. All the above heads of these great nations had no answers to solve the problem of moral decay though they had desperately expressed the need to do something urgently.
As we see rapid progress in human civilisation and material prosperity, there is corresponding negligence of moral and spiritual aspects of human development. We must remember that man consists of three parts: viz, body, mind and spirit. Education leads to development of body and mind but the spiritual or moral development cannot take place unless man connects himself with God the Creator. As Martin Luther King Jr. said “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man” .Realisation and appropriate action on this matter alone will solve all problems that we see today. Knowing God personally by accepting Jesus as Lord and Saviour and obeying His words as we find in the Bible will bring solution to all the problems of the world.
Today people are ignorant or negligent about the most vital issues of life such as Sin and its consequences, Judgement of God, Forgiveness of sin, Salvation through Jesus, Hell, Heaven, Eternal Life and Eternal condemnation in hell. Sir Winston Churchill said the reason for moral decay in England was due to lack of teaching on Heaven and Hell. If people don’t have longing for heaven and fear of hell they will not be afraid to sin and their conscience will be dead. By knowing Jesus as personal Saviour who is the source of all love, we shall receive His nature of love and if there is love all aspects of human relation will be all right. This is what is most needed today in the world. Today people live and work as though they can live by bread alone. We must tell and show the world that man needs to obey the word of God, which alone will bring peace, harmony, blessing and eternal life.
The Bible says the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9). It needs a heart transplant which can happen by the power of the Holy Spirit after receiving Jesus as personal Saviour (Ezek.11:19) By doing so our nature will be totally changed(II Cor. 5:17). Here is the answer to all the problems of moral decay and wickedness which had intrigued all the heads of the above three great nations. We who hope and believe in God have the answer.
