Man — A Paradox

Every time we board an airplane they search our luggage, and they even search our clothes and our bodies. All of this because of terrorism all around the world. And we ask ourselves, “What’s wrong with this world? Why can’t we solve our problems? Why can’t the world find this peace that this Prince of Peace was supposed to bring?”You see, man is actually a paradox. On the one hand there’s futility and sin, on the other hand there’s goodness and kindness and gentleness and love. On the one hand man is a moral failure, and on the other hand he has the capacities that would relate him to Almighty God. No wonder the apostle Paul called this moral failure “the mystery of iniquity” (2 Thessalonians 2:7)

The Bible teaches that the human race is morally sick. This disease has affected every phase of our life in society. The Bible calls this disease by an ugly, 3-letter word: SIN.

“He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
                                    (Isaiah 53:3-5)