From Perfect to Broken

“There is none who does good, no, not one." Romans 3:12 NKJV

B. F. Skinner was a twentieth century psychologist who had a tremendous impact on the thinking and planning of post WWII America. In his book, “Walden Two”, he taught that man was nothing more than the result of his environment. The right environment would create the right man. Billions of dollars of government funds were spent to create the right environment to create the perfect society. We would all be good and happy and live in peace and harmony if we only had the right things and were taught in the right way. Genesis and Psalm 14 say that B.F. Skinner was a fool.

Genesis teaches that the perfect environment did not make the perfect man. Eden was as good as it got. Adam sinned. God gave Noah and his family a new start in a scrubbed clean earth. They sinned. God gave the Israelites the perfect set of laws and the perfect Promised Land to live in. They broke the laws and polluted the land. The Bible tells us what God knows about us; we are sinful beings. To deny that is to deny God. If you are waiting for things to get perfect before you come to God, don’t wait. Only God is perfect and He has given us His Son to pay for our sins and take us some day to His perfect place where we will indeed live without sin or its consequences.

Dear Father, We acknowledge that we are not perfect, never have been and in this life never will be. Thank You for forgiveness through Your Son so that we can be saved. Amen.