God’s Image in Progressivism (Part 1)
At the heart of Progressive Leftism is a core of truth that goes something like this: there is something wrong with the world that needs to be fixed. Leftists long for Utopia, which by itself is a good thing. We were made to long for Utopia, and the longing stings with every injustice, tragedy, and corruption we see in the world. Every longing is a giant red arrow pointing to the Creator who gave us our moral conscience, and to the future He has in store for us.
But as with any shard of truth humanity stumbles across, our sinful hearts always manage to twist it into a destructive lie. Progressivism errs because it sets up humanity as our only hope for achieving Utopia. According to them, it is the systems we build, and the people we elect who will bring our world into a place of perfect justice. It doesn’t matter how many dead bodies this hubris has given us in several millennia of following it. It doesn’t matter that this self-worship is the sin of Lucifer who followed it to his destruction. In Leftism, mankind is his own god. There are no other options, and no amount of human misery and genocide will stop them from continuing to worship that god as they pursue the Utopia we’re all designed to long for.
The truth is hard, humbling and freeing. We are indeed broken. Our world is broken. But our hope is in our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. The more we look to Him in humble obedience, the more our world will inch closer to that promised joy, until our King returns to finish the job. And finish it, He will.
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