Making the world a better place?????

Making the world a better place?!?!

Most Christians would view the above statement as their mandate from God. They would see this as the natural result of our obedience to the command of Jesus:

Matthew 28:19-20

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

They often dream of safer communities and wholesome families when somehow they will be successful in their efforts to evangelize the world.  They carry with them what I call 'The Concept of Winning', where the believe that their is somehow a contest between God and the devil where the winner would be decided by the one who has the most souls in the end.  The only problem with this is thatGOD HAS NOT DETERMINED IT SO!

We think of sinners as people who COULD do right but CHOOSE not to.  When we see some drug addict strung out on drugs we declare 'that's what happens when you make stupid choices'.  Or when we see some single parent with seven children from seven different fathers we say 'ya think she couldn't keep her legs closed?'.  We are masters at looking down on the lost as if they had the capacity to do BETTER.  Consider this:

2 Corinthians 4:4

 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

This is the condition of EVERY unbeliever.  This verse tells us that the the unbeliever CANNOT see the light of the gospel.  We may feel as though we understand this passage but if we really did we would PITY the lost and NOT judge them.  We often wonder WHY DON'T THESE PEOPLE DO BETTER????  The answer is because they CANNOT do better.  PLEASE NOTE THAT THE UNBELIEVER DOES NOT BLIND HIMSELF;  he is victim of Satan.  Consider:

2 Timothy 2:26
26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

 It is ONLY when:

Galatians 1:15-16
 15 But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, 

You see we cannot come to him UNTIL it pleases him for us to do so.  With that said we can understand that the condition of this world is as God would have it.