Who's to Blame, and Who's Gonna Fix It?

I have a relatively new neighbor.  After moving in, he put a flag pole in his front yard flying both an American flag and a blue Trump banner.  He later added a flag pole at the side of his house.  

But his boldest move has been to etch "MAGA!" on the sidewalk.

In this country, we have people who worship the President.  Likewise, we have people who want to impeach him.  

At the bottom of it all, everyone recognizes that something is wrong with the world.  And we want the world fixed, or at least better.

And because of the predicament that the world is in, people are asking, but mostly arguing about two questions.  First, who's to blame for the mess we're in?  Second, who's going to fix it and how?  

And people disagree about the answers to both questions.

But the truth is, "We live in a broken world," and it's almost always been that way.

I was talking about this with another neighbor, a young father and republican who voted for Trump, but admits that he just doesn't like the President.

We agreed on this, "All men are sinful."  

Some men keep their sins secret, and outwardly appear to have honor and integrity; and some, like the President, have no shame and just say what's on their minds.

So, back to the two questions:

1.  Who's to blame for the mess we're in?

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.  Romans 5:12

We're all guilty, and we're all to blame.  We all deserve death because of sin.  It's not any one person's leadership or any one political party's laws or positions.  It's all of us.

2.  Who's going to do the fixing and how?

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.  2 Corinthians 5:18–19

Jesus is the one who's done the fixing, who paid the price for me, for all the guilty, through His death and resurrection.  He's the one who's making all things new.

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.  Isaiah 65:17

And my response is to love people and to share this truth with them. 

My friend, the young father, he looks at the world's mess and he just wants a safe world for his girls.  He loves them, as a father loves his children, similar to how the Father loves us.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  John 3:16–17

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.  Acts 4:12

Amen, come Lord Jesus.