418 Case in Point

I want to refer back to the USA Today, Friday, May 24, 2013, News, p.10A for a case in point to demonstrate how Scripture says any movement away from God and Godly behavior is always a step down the road toward evil:

“Normally tranquil Sweden on edge as unrest brews. Hundreds of rioters take to the streets in immigrant suburbs. . . Swedes have been increasingly worried over immigrants failing to integrate and the cost to the state in benefits.”

One must note here, Gentle Reader, well-meaning Sweden does not appear to have solved anything in improving social order or reducing overall budget costs to the state by abandoning Lutheranism in 2000 as the official religion. I would even say, if I may, that compromise of their Christian identity has not served them well or at all.

It seems to me that not seeing the necessity of re-committing to Christian values as cornerstones of Swedish living and government, will leave the Swedes open to further and further compromise and ever increasing struggle in the future. Scripture tells us that an empty house, so to speak, is known to open the way to occupation by something else, including but not limited to heartache, strife, suffering and even despair.

Not that having a Christian identity prohibits trouble in and of itself. It is a fallen world, one where Christians frequently suffer more than non-Christians for a multitude of reasons.

But, as can be seen in the article, Sweden’s surrender of her former formidable bulwark of faith is already bringing something other than the desired resolution and relief from internal stresses she must have hoped would eventuate from the drastic action taken in 2000. In fact, the things unfolding (and there are more than this incident) within her borders can certainly be said to be spiraling into greater and more profound opposition to Sweden’s tranquil way of life than ever dreamed possible. A spiritual people, her Christianity nourished her tranquil being.

I would even imagine from what I read, that to the Swedes, it must seem that there is a hail of one thing after the other disturbing their peace and manifesting in a virtual maelstrom of criticism, distortion, and manipulation, all about her, by non-Christian, even atheistic minorities.

What a nightmare! Things are not better in Sweden, no. As I see it, they are worse than ever. There, they are more than a step down the road toward evil. They are in the thick of it.

And that is not good.

To be continued . . .