MINNESOTA BAPTIST ASSOCIATION

Restoring the Joy of Salvation!

by Dr. Lance T. Ketchum, MBA State Missionary

Overcoming the Human Predicament

However, what God deserves and what God gets are usually two different things. We live in the middle of the human predicament of a fallen Creation. In the fall of mankind, the acme of God's creation became marred with the acne of sin. We live out our existence in this human predicament under a curse. When we walk on a pathway with many stumbling stones, we often spend most of our time looking down in order to keep from falling on our faces. We need to look down occasionally, we need to look out regularly, but we need to look up consistently.

The difficulties and problems of life tend to preoccupy us. They keep us from looking up to God. Therefore, God must allow us to stumble occasionally to our knees. On our knees we see ourselves in the hopelessness of trying to get through this life without Him. On our knees we are forced to stop, even in a moment of anguish and pain if necessary, and look up and think about what is available to us in our relationship with our Redeemer, the Creator of Heaven and Earth.