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For a long time now I've been watching and learning about the world. I see so much suffering and so much evil, everywhere I look.

Some evil is blatant: A shockingly high number of women have been molested or raped, and many men too. Children are killed in the womb so the parents can live their lives as they planned, or they are born and then neglected. Men break their marriage vows because they want an endless supply of physical or emotional pleasure, often leaving their children to grow up in broken or fatherless homes. Women are anxious or covet so they drive their men away or run off. Greedy marketing people harass everyone they can to increase their income with no regard for anyone's peace. Business people cheat their customers when they can do so without getting caught. Country invades country. Governments serve themselves and not their people. Governments slaughter the innocent, even their own citizens whom they are appointed to serve.

Other evil that I see is counterfeiting as good: People are claiming to love God, but they're doing it on their own terms—actually just seeking to please themselves; they even make up their own idea of what God is like and what He wants from them, rather than seeking to learn what He has revealed about Himself. They're giving to the poor, but not to help the poor; they're trying to buy off their guilty consciences. They seek to save the environment and to restore it to perfection; they try to restore their bodies to perfection; they seek to go back to the Garden of Eden, but without repenting of the sins that got us kicked out in the first place. They give praise to what is good in life and seek to increase it, but refuse to give thanks and praise to the One who gave it to them. They polish their intellects, analyzing everything, but missing the meaning of it all because they couldn't stand the guilt they would feel if they acknowledged their Creator.

And for a long time now I've been thinking and learning about God. I see so much love He has for every single suffering person—even the evil ones. And I've been waiting to understand what I could do to help change things. Now I'm ready, and I want to take every opportunity I have to teach the Bible and preach the Gospel, and help people get past the obstacles our culture has put in the way of understanding these things.

And I believe we are running out of time.