It's the sound of another pillar of civilization falling. Our underpinnings are disappearing and the structure of society is tottery.
Which enemy came in to take out our pillars? Was it ISIS? Communism?
No, we have broken our own pillars as we have dropkicked TRUTH. And in doing away with what is objectively true, we now are left with only the perception of truth.
People perceive themselves to be a different race, a different gender, an arbiter of life/death, and a valiant re-tweaker of institutions established since time began. What folly!
All the while, we are proud to be "evolving". That is madness akin to the young man last week who thought he could launch fireworks off his head. That was a sad end.
Affirming abhorrent behavior is also risky. Laws written against sodomy, bigamy, beastiality, pedophilia, and incest broke nature's law....before they were codified into man's law. But now our society has affirmed it, encouraged others toward it, and incorporated some into the law of the land.
FAIR WARNING: WHEN YOU DEFY THE LAWS OF NATURE, YOU ARE DEFYING NATURE'S GOD.
*To Bruce Jenner and the transgendered, God says "I made them male and female."
*To Rachel Dolezal and the transracial people, God says "I made people from every tribe and tongue."
*To the Kevorkian folks and the Gosnell abortion people, God says "I breathed the breath of life into man and I know the number of your days."
It doesn't pay to massage God's Truth because He says nothing formed against Him will stand. The Lord doesn't have editors.
In our contempt for Him, we took His plans and airbrushed them to suit ourselves. We raise a fist to heaven and say "we are who WE say, not who You say". We steal His sovereign right to rule over the very people He made.
How else would you explain a 65-year-old grandfather wanting to be a woman in a tight skirt? Or the LGBT community taking God's bow in the sky (meant to remind man of His judgment and mercy) and waving it brazenly over unrighteousness?
Charles Stanley says living far from God binds us up tightly until we lose our sight and aspiration and gratitude. We become plagued by fears and anger, devolving into either depression or aggression (depending on whether emotions turn outward or inward).
But the good news says a Savior came to earth to free such internal prisoners.
The natural scientist Friedrich Dessauer once said "The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God."
Such a meeting takes place in the heart as the kindness of God leads to repentance. Nature's God unshackles us as we turn to what is true and right and unchangeable...the living Word of God, the truth for all mankind.