Making a Difference Is there any use?

Most people live aimless lives. They wander here and there going through the motions of living.How do we live a purposeful life? There are many self-help books. Many writers that tell us plans and plans of how to change our lives. Yet well over half the population of the world is` not living a purposeful life. And of the few that are purposing as to what the content of their life is--many of them don't have a good purpose.

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Where have the great people gone? Where have the people with lofty thoughts, intelligent behavior, and exemplary lives gone? Why do we appear to be living in a sea of half-hearted, shallow human beings? Many has been the time when we home schooled our children that we were castigated because 'they won't be socialized'. Thank God they weren't socialized. When you actually look at the word socialized--isn't that akin to socialist? That is what our children are being formed into. Public education has become social engineering centers.

If you like the things that are being socially engineered--in my opinion--you need your head examined, because this is what they are engineering:

Isaiah 5:20  "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" 

And the reason they are getting away with this?
Isaiah 5:21 "Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"

The second reason is we have elected officials who, instead of following the 'will of the people', and/or doing what is right, are doing what they jolly well please. In most cases they are stomping over the people they are elected by.  There are non-elected judges as well, who instead of enforcing the laws are deciding to make their own laws. To both of these problems there doesn't seem to be an answer. We need better elected officials, but where are they to be found? We need people with not just courage, but principles. 

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

John 1:5  "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

The light has been shining for many years. It needs to be polished up in order to shine the brighter. God is still in control. We need to let Him lead us in our lives. We need soldiers of Christ to arise. Help, Lord, Save!