Two extremes of behavior affect humanity today. First, lawlessness and violence—and most people are aware of this. Second, less advertised but more dangerous, a growing inertia and indifference that affects great masses of people and, metaphorically speaking, puts them to sleep. They lose sight of their great potentialities for good, their power to act rightly and effectively, and their ability to care for and help others.
This attitude of thought avoids issues, puts off decisions, drifts in a mental apathy of nonparticipation, nonthinking, and thus, wittingly or unwittingly, acts as a brake on the wheels of progress. The danger in this apathy is that, often disguised as tolerance, it is accepted as a virtue instead of being rejected as evil.
Christ Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10; He lived with an intensity of purpose: the purpose of teaching the people about the fatherhood of God and His love for them; the purpose of opening the eyes of people to the power of good they possessed and of warning them of the evil they must reject. He lived to heal and bless.
