PRESENT SCENARIO (PART II)

“In a day like this, wonderful yet fearful, men are asking questions. What does it all mean? Where are we going? What is the meaning and the goal of human history? Men are concerned today not only about the individual and the destiny of his soul but also about the meaning of history itself. Does mankind have a destiny? Or do we jerk across the stage of time like wooden puppets,

only to have the stage, the actors, and the theatre destroyed by fire, leaving only a pile of ashes and the smell of smoke?”

Throughout history, poets and prophets longed for an ideal society. Plato pictured an ideal state organised on philosophical principles but he himself realised that his plan was too idealistic to be realised.

Heriod dreamed of a lost golden age in the far-off past but saw no brightness in the present, constant care for the first day after the present, and no hope for the future.

Virgil sang of one who would deliver the world from its suffering and by whom “he great line of the ages begins anew”.

Besides these, many different ideals have surfaced throughout the history of mankind. In my opinion let us leave these ‘gremlins” on their own. God will turn our tragedies to triumphs, our poverty to riches, our pain to glory, and our defeat to victory.

All believers throughout history will stand reunited in God’s presence, safe and secure. As Paul comforted the Thessalonians with the promise of the resurrection, so we should comfort and reassure each other with this great hope.

Extract from my book "Christianity and the Kingdom of God vs the shadows of communism" (pages 41-43).