Given AI, jet travel, always new antibiotics, and cell phones, we might think that because of all of this, human beings must surely be different from when I was born 94 years ago (before all of this).

Not really. We still use words. We still need each other and one another. We still have struggling governments. We still raise, grow, prepare, and eat food. A lot seems to have changed. But not this:

What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. (Mk 7:20). And our nation is organized on this principle just as much as In God we trust.

And now we have a national government—and a president who did NOT put his hand on the Bible when he pronounced his oath of office–telling our schools that we are not to aim in any way at the poor, the immigrant, the not-honored-minorities—we are not to give them special treatment in any way, because our President has so decreed.

So now is the fateful moment when we all need to remember and accept that at the end of all our differences and conflicts, every one of us needs a Redeemer to save us from the death that we have pulled and are pulling down on ourselves.

But we know:  Jesus Christ yesterday, today, and forever (Heb.13:8).  That does not change and will not.