New Year 2021

In the first twelve chapters of the book of Genesis we have accounts of God bringing down in humiliation the efforts of mankind to act independently of God. There is Adam and Eve and their fall; Cain killing his brother Able and being exiled; Noa and the great flood; the stopping of the construction of the tower of Babel. In all these cases the sin of all sin, PRIDE, is at work, the same sin that caused the Fallen Angels to be expelled from the glory of Heaven. At the centre of pride is the assumption of equality with and independence from God. Throughout history this pattern of the rise and fall of humankind has prevailed. This present age has once again manifested this prideful mentality with its embrace of Atheistic Secularism. God has been relegated to the status of superstition. But in this year 2020 a little microscopic virus has brought the whole world to its knees. Millions of people have perished and what was held up with pride as normal is no more. Vaccines are in the works as a solution. But a even greater remedy is available, one that has been there from the beginning of time  - acceptance and humble surrender to the will of God. Will 2021 be the beginning of the acceptance of this remedy?