Crime is turning our cities into ghettos of fear and anger. Pornography and obscenity are flung at us by the media. We are shocked by the stories of the murder and the sexual abuse of children. Here in the Bay Area, divorces now outnumber marriages. Inflation robs us all.
Life seems to be growing increasingly complex and frightening.
It may comfort you to know that we are not the first generation to ask that question. In fact, the Apostle John himself may very well have asked it in the 1st century. John was the last of the apostles. By the time he had reached eighty years of age, all the other apostles had been martyred for the cause of Christ. When the Emperor Domitian came to the throne of Rome, John was exiled to Patmos, a little barren island in the middle of the Aegean Sea.