Problems

Most of what consumes our political and personal energy today isn’t real problems at all but non-problems impossibilities created by human imagination to avoid admitting the real issue. Equality as absolute sameness and freedom as total autonomy are impossibilities; chasing them only produces disorder and tyranny. Likewise, when people say, “I want to be myself,” they pretend that abandoning responsibility will magically produce a new identity. In truth, these supposed “problems” have no solutions because they are evasions. Scripture tells us the real problem is sin a problem we refuse to confront because acknowledging it means confessing our guilt. But sin does have a solution: Jesus Christ, who alone makes us new creations according to His purpose, not our fantasy. Following Christ does not remove problems, but it finally brings us into the realm of reality where true answers exist. He alone is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).