What Our World Needs Most
Randall Caselman
1/28/98
What Our World Needs Most
All human kind has basic needs. We need light and darkness, food and water, shelter and clothing, love and compassion. We also have some basic spiritual needs.
We need God. When we say, what the world needs most is God, we not talking about gods of wood, metal, stone or the gods of man's imagination like those of Greek or Roman mythology; but the one-and-only-true God: the God of the Bible, the God of creation, the spirit God, the God that is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. The God that abounds in loving kindness, mercy and grace.
• He is God the father, the creator, the provider and sustainer of all things. All that exists was created by Him and is sustained by Him.
He created the world and everything in it. It is in Him that we live and move; it is to Him that we owe our very being. He has given life and breath to all things. Without Him was nothing made that was made.
• He is God the Son. This spirit God took on flesh and blood, came into the world to save us.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus was God in the flesh, God with skin on, the one and only God who is full of grace and truth.
• He also has the personality of the Holy Spirit. God exists as one who communicates, one who talks to his creation. The Holy Spirit is God’s speaking personality. It is through the Spirit that we have the will of God in written form. Paul said,
all Scripture is inspired of God. Peter tells us how Holy men of God were moved, carried alone, by the Holy Spirit as they wrote.
Plus it is through the Spirit that God is able to live within us. Flesh and blood can’t dwell in flesh and blood. We can’t get inside one another’s body, but as a spirit, God can live in His creation. Not just in some abstract sense, but in reality.
There is one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Without God we would not exist and we certainly would have no immortal soul, no hope of life after death. Is there any doubt that what our world needs most is the one-and-only-true God?
Our world needs godly people. God comes to Abraham with the news that He was going to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because of their wickedness...
Their ungodly morals. Abraham begs for Sodom to be spared. He bargains with God saying,
if there be fifty righteous souls found in Sodom, would you spare the city? God says yes. Then Abraham got to thinking, maybe fifty is too many, so he petitions God for forty souls. God agrees. Then Abraham moves from forty to thirty, to twenty, and finally to ten. Sodom and Gomorrah would still be here today if only ten Godly people could have been found.
As we observe our world, we recognize that our culture closely resembles the ungodly state of affairs found in Sodom and Gomorrah. Their sins are our sins. Listen to this list of sins from Romans chapter one,
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Sounds like Paul is writing in today's morning paper. Nothing has changed, human nature remains the same. People are sinners. Our world, our nation, our communities, our families and our churches are in serious trouble today because of the shortage of godly people.
Can you make a difference in this sinful world?
• How many godly people will it take to save our nation?
• How many good moral folks will it take to make a difference in our community?
• How many righteous parents will it take to save our educational system?
• How many godly souls will it take to make a difference in this church or the church where you attend?
I don’t know, but I know ten would have done it in Sodom.
Our world needs a lot of things, peace, food and shelter for the poor, a balanced ecological system, etc. But what we need most is God and godly people.
— Randall Caselman
