Problems

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Forty-eight, problems.

Problems have solutions.

Non-problems don't.

When I was a student, I was told that squaring in the circle

was a non-problem meant to be avoided.

In our everyday life, we spend too much time with non-problems.

Most of our politics is concerned with non-problems,

and the result is a growing disaster.

Equality is an impossibility.

People can't be compressed into one level.

Absolute freedom is also impossible.

It means anarchy and not freedom to attempt it.

Our political situation grows increasingly worse

because we are more and more concerned with non-problems.

The same is true in the personal realm.

One of the most common remarks heard by a pastor

from rebellious youth, husbands and wives is,

I want to be myself.

The trouble is they are ready themselves,

and they are imagining that a break from responsibility

will make them a new creation, their imagined self.

Most of our self-styled personal problems are non-problems.

The basic problem, whether in the political or personal swears, is sin.

This is a problem we hit to admit to

because it means admitting that we are sinners and have sinned.

We evasively invent non-problems and as a result,

we have no solutions.

Sin has a solution, and he is a name Jesus Christ.

What our imagination can't do, he can't do,

to make us a new creation,

but a new creation according to his purpose,

not in terms of our will.

When we follow Christs, we do not eliminate problems.

Instead, we face sin for the first time,

and we have the solutions in and through him.

We move from the realm of non-problems to the realm of problems and answers.

He is, quote, the way, the truth, and the life,

John 146, there is no other.