The human element

There is nothing wrong with “the thing” in and of itself. It is the human element. The human element uses (or pursues) “the thing” for either the wrong reasons or in excess. The same money that can be used to produce illegal drugs, can be used to fund medical research for deadly diseases. It isn’t the money, it is the human element – things are morally neutral, people are not. How do you “fight” HIV/AIDS, drugs et cetera? We are missing the mark. If we are going to “wage a war” against anything, it should be ourselves. The Bible teaches that we need a circumcision of the heart and not the flesh. Do not think for one moment, it is mere coincidence that these words come before Jesus’ monumental interview with Nicodemus: “But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.” (John 2:24-25) According to Jeremiah 17:9, what “was in man” is not pleasant at all. Hence Jesus’ dictum in John 3:7, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” Don’t keep missing the mark and forget the human element.