What Ails the Modern World, By Roger Behra

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What Ails the Modern World

By

Roger Behra

There is certain percentage of the world’s population that knows what ails the modern world. (Ail means to be ill or to grow weak). That is the condition of the modern world-ill and weak. And it is growing more so as each day passes.

That is very evident as we witness all the events and great suffering and all the natural disasters, killings, and other unspeakable crimes being committed by mankind each and every day.

The certain percentage of the world’s population that knows what ails the modern world is the number of people who knows and keeps God’s laws. They keep God’s laws every day as a matter of daily life. They adjust their lives to let God’s laws always to be their guide. Their moral compasses are headed in the right direction and functioning quite well.

For those who do not know, God’s laws are the following:

A. Love God with your whole mind, body, and actions.
B. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
C. The Ten Commandments.

1. I am your God, you shall not have strange gods before me.
2. You shall not take the name of your God in vain.
3. Keep holy the Sabbath Day.
4. Honor you father and mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or husband.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

God gave us His laws to live by because He knew we needed guidelines to live with in order to be happy here on earth as we showed our love for His and our neighbor. When we fail to know His laws live by them each day, we end up miserable here on earth and throw away a happy eternity with Him later, when our time here on earth ends.

So, the power rests with us. We determine the quality of our lives here and our eternity, later. The sad fact is this. The large percent who fail to learn God’s laws and keep them hurt not only themselves, they cause great sadness and unhappiness for all those who do know and keep God’s laws. That is the present recently.

Finally, the joyful fact is this. The percentage of people who honor and love God and keep His laws receive His abundant blessings, graces, and helps in their daily lives in spite of the cultural harm the irreligious and law breakers cause in people’s lives. God’s rewards are most fitting result in the battle of good vs. evil. And God’s rewards blend in very well into all cultures of the world. Thanks be to God!

R. B.

05/30/09