How Relevant is the Bible and God in the 21st Century?

April 2021

Have you noticed how fashionable it is for the younger generations to quickly dismiss the relevance of how life used to be in recent generations. "Well we don't do it that way any more"' "we have an app for that now". Their eyes seek only the screens of their devices.  Is it really true that thousands of years of history should now be discarded for the fast moving yet unsure future of cyberspace? The current directions of this new thinking is that we discard tradition and culture that has been the glue that held mankind together through wars and famine; through good times and bad; through revolution and triumph; but now? God is who or what we want to create in our mind? How can that be an anchor to life when it is a product of finite minds?

Hebrews 13:8 states that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and I don't believe we have arrived at the end of forever.

When the Creator of the heavens and earth is still vitally interested in the peoples of this earth.  When He still longs for the gift of His Son to be accepted by us and bring us to a place of open fellowship with God again. When He will move circumstances and people and events to ensure we have opportunity to hear or read or see the good  news of Salvation, you can be certain of this one thing.  God is still on His throne above the Heavens and His eyes are still going to and fro above the earth looking for those whose hearts have a longing to embrace His love and follow His Word and find the life that is eternal.

Yes, the Bible and God are intrinsically intertwined with today and today's people. The truths of the Bible are totally relevant to our lives today.  We still get into trouble; we still have disappointments; we still have despair and sickness and broken relationships and crushed dreams. These were the problems that the children of Israel faced time and time again, and Psalm 107 says that they cried out of their distress and God heard them and delivered them.  And then look a few years later and they have turned their back on God and followed their own dreams again only to find disaster and out of their distress they called on God and He heard them, saw their remorse and delivered them. 

And today, with all our immense knowledge and modern statements, we still get into messes and have disasters and disease and disappointments and out of the midst of all this we can call on God and invite Him into our mess and He will move in our lives in love and direction and His strong hand will lift us up to life in Jesus; reborn and reshaped by the power of His Holy Spirit and He will deliver us.

David and Cherie Rodway