Hope For A Senseless World

We hear people say it all the time. They’re “just trying to make sense of the world”.

That thought crossed my mind today as I listened to the news report covering the latest school shooting, as I longed heavily for heaven.

We spend a lot of our lives just trying to make sense of the world. Why are there natural disasters? Why is there poverty? Why is there sickness? Why do people hurt other people? Why do they kill each other? How do we make sense of such a world?

And it hit me this morning.

We can’t.

We cannot make sense of a sin-cursed world. And the reason we want to is because we were created for more. We were created for a world that makes sense. A world where man dwells in harmony with God. A world where we exist in perfect love towards each other.

That’s the world we were created for and, deep down, each of us knows it. The evidence is found in how we try, and fail, to make sense of all the evil we see around us.

So what’s the answer? What is the answer to a world that doesn’t make sense? A world full of pain and heartache and sorrow?

Jesus.

In Genesis 3, God confronts Adam and Eve after they disobey Him and plunge humanity into a senseless world. He explains the pain that has now entered life. And He casts them out of the Garden of Eden, out of perfect community with Him. But this passage isn’t devoid of hope. The hope is found in what God says to Satan.

“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” (vs. 15)

The world has just been thrown into darkness. Life as it had been no longer exists. Man no longer has community with God. But God says there’s still hope. And He points to Jesus.

On Christmas, we celebrate the coming of Jesus.

On Good Friday, we remember the death of Jesus.

On Easter, we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, the fulfillment of Genesis 3:15.

“But the angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for He has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where He lay. Then go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead.’” – Matthew 28:5-7a

Come. See.

Most of you know by now how precious to me the phrase “come and see” has become. In John 1, Nathanael asks Philip if anything good (Jesus) can come from Nazareth. In Matthew 28, the women at the tomb wonder where Jesus is. And each of them is told the same thing, “Come and see.”

Brothers and sisters in Christ, when we look at the darkness in our world—when we hear of the pain people suffer—our response should be to go out to a weary world and say, “Come and see. Let me share hope with you. Let me share Jesus with you.” Jesus’s heel was bruised when He was crucified, but He bruised the head of sin and death when He rose again from the dead. When He conquered death.

He’s the answer to a world that doesn’t make sense.

And He’s made a promise to His people that a day is coming when we will join Him in a new world. A world that we were created for, where we will dwell in perfect harmony with Him and with each other. A world where there is no more pain, no more sorrow, no more tears.

Friends, if you don’t know Jesus, I want to share with you how you can meet Him. How He can give you the hope you need as you walk through a senseless world. A hope for something more. A hope for a beautiful eternity, an eternity where man dwells in harmony with God forever. A hope for your weary soul. If you don’t know Him, please message me. I could have no greater joy in life than to share Jesus with you.