Emphasis Preaching Journal

Human life is under siege not because so many important things go wrong but because we make lesser values the standard of what human life must become. Of all sins, the most destructive is that which takes the life God has given us, and makes it a means to a lesser end. We often take life for granted until reality hits us in the face and reminds us what a gift from God each day is. We normally live each day immersed in the present -- to such a degree, in fact, that we often fail to see how much our own social period differs from the past, indeed from a mere generation ago.