Putting the man back together

After catching up on today’s news I am reminded what a mess the world is in.

Spouses lying, cheating, and in some cases killing each other, people with no sense of direction or belonging and no morals……how in the world did we get here?

All of this moral decay is but a symptom of a much bigger dilemma. The human mind and soul was never meant to live separated from God but many of us are doing just that……and by choice.

In 1997 then Oklahoma Congressman J.C. Watts gave the Republican response to President Clinton’s State of the Union Address.

In his response he told a poignant story relating to mankind that needs to be re-told many times over until we fully comprehend.

The story was about a young minister and his young son sharing an afternoon together while the father worked on his sermon.

The boy was being pesky because he was bored and he wanted his father’s attention so in an effort to appease the boy while he continued to work on his sermon he tore a picture of the world from a magazine and tore it into several smaller pieces and instructed the boy to put the world back together.

In just a few minutes, to his father’s surprise, the boy was finished. The father being somewhat astonished asked his young son how he completed the project so quickly.

The boy said, “Dad, what you didn’t know was that on the back of the world was a picture of a man. When I put the man back together the world fell into place.”

Wow! What would happen in our world today if we could put the man back together?