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How God’s Word Guides us to Understand Disasters,
Massacres & Bad Things That Keep Happening all Around Us
Each of us this morning live in a world unlike anything human history has ever known.
The advent of electronic media has ushered in the relentless barrage of visual images that cause the average person to vicarious experience the equivalent of what would have been a lifetime of disasters for the average 18th Century individual about every month.
Mass, global, instantaneous, on demand communication means we see everything, and it means that we see and hear it constantly. Media has catapulted most Westerners onto the observation deck of human misery and evil. Almost without realizing it we sit and get numbed by over exposure to more and more disasters, each day.
No other generation before ours of the past ten years has ever seen anything like what we now can and do see constantly. We see or hear about every major disaster, catastrophe, and tragedy sooner or later, delivered to us in full color.
As we watch and listen we vicariously experience the sorrow, pain, loss, anguish, and death that fellow humans have gone through.
Whether it is a stampede after an athletic event where weak and unsuspecting people are trampled, or the family barely escapes or is burned alive in a house fire. Earthquakes in Japan, genocide in Sudan, another truck bombing with pools of blood in Iraq. Nothing escapes the relentless assault of the media reverberating every pain, sorrow, tragedy and death across our screens, and into our minds.
Generations past lived in a small world. They knew everything close to them, some things that were not close but touched them, and almost nothing about most of the rest of world.
No one in the past ever had to bear the weight of all the troubles in the entire world, all the time.
Inescapable Sufferings Surround Us