We have the technology...

It is interesting to think that there are very few  actual solutions to be found in politics, or government. In fact, it seems that all politicians can do is serve to fill in until technology can present real solutions. Government can only legislate laws into existence that will try and limit the damage done by the socially delinquent and immoral, until an actual way of stopping the perpetrators can be installed into everyday society. There is little the law can do, if the individual has the heart and the mind to continue to break it. It has no actual power to speak of. For example, the law says clearly that one should not drink and drive, but there is nothing to actually stop the drunken driver from getting into a car and smashing into an innocent. If social conscience isn’t going to stop them, then the threat of some future punishment isn't going to either. A real solution would be a car that will not start if it detects alcohol in the system of the person behind the wheel. Legislation can’t do that, but technology can.

However, man’s technology will never become advanced enough to solve his biggest problem, because the real problem is man himself. He is faulty, the technology which operates him has been corrupted and is in need of replacing. The real problem is, what causes the drunk driver to get drunk in the first place? There is something fundamentally wrong with the heart of man, the mainframe can no longer function to produce valid results. It seems then trying to find technological solutions to the spiritual problems of our society is like shutting the barn door, long after the horse has bolted. What we need is a technology that will cure the brokenness of man himself, fixing his broken heart and soul. However, this kind of technology will never be developed by human technicians.

In the book of Romans, chapter 8, the Apostle Paul introduces us to a radically new and advanced technology. Having already described our spiritual bankruptcy and the failure of the inadequate technology of Moses, Paul now leads us triumphantly to the revelation of the technology God has engineered, the cure for our depravity and our inability to perform the function for which we were created. The Holy Spirit has the ability to go inside the broken mainframe of man and reform the faulty model from the inside, at the very heart of the issue itself, which is, the heart itself! The purpose of man’s creation can now be fully and perfectly realised, for he now has the necessary programming and tools to glorify the God Who created him. This is the free gift of God to all who call upon His name and put their trust in the saving work of Christ at Calvary.

The lost and broken can be remade, thanks to this gracious and perfectly inventive gift of God. We now have the technology, not of our own creation or effort, but by the grace of God, Who is still the author and perfecter of our faith. The solution to the problems of our world cannot be solved by politicians, or technicians, but God, the One Who is above all, through all and in all!