The Remedy for a Broken Culture: “Come to Me, I Will Give You Rest”
“Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest…” There has never been a better promise for western culture. A culture of anxiety and depression, a culture of escape and superficiality, a culture that keeps getting tired of going nowhere, a culture that looks for diversion and fun to escape a deep sense of worthlessness. A culture of anxiety: a culture generating people fearful of the unknown, of failure, of being abandoned. A culture of depression: of people depressed when they come to themselves and see only nothingness, people accustomed to boredom, sliding to despair. A culture without God: a culture blind to God’s existence, deaf to His call and suspicious of His promises. And, because of that, I would even say a culture without true love, full of human hearts closed to their neighbour, an atmosphere of selfishness. A culture where a spouse is loved as long as this is beneficial to the lover, where a child is desired as long as it ...