Look at our situation today, you hear so often of the word freedom. We want to be free. We want to be free from this we want to be free from that. And look at the many ways that man is free today.
Technology has freed him, so that he can travel from one end of the globe to the other and travel through space at thousands of miles an hour.
Industry has freed him to move from one job specialization to another.
Education has freed his mind.
Electronics has freed him to be able to press a button and enter into experiences quite foreign to his own.
Medicine has freed him from sickness.
Chemistry has freed him from his emotions.
Psychiatry has freed him from guilt.
Art has freed his imagination
…and yet the man who wanted to be free technologically, travel at thousands of miles an hour and some of them end up with nervous breakdowns. Education has become a treadmill. Television has homogenized our tastes, fastens upon our sensitivities so that 3 million people are forced to the same thing by a pummeling of their minds. Art has fastened upon us. Drugs have enslaved. Wars have become stalemated. Diplomatic negotiations have become deadlocked. Anarchy has erupted. Law has answered with repression. And determinism is still a reality word in a psychologists lexicon.
In an endover to be free we have bound ourselves and man has now been called homo-perturbatus. — restless man intoxicated with a sense of freedom he doesn’t know what to do with.
Be extremely careful what you pursue in prayer because what you are seeking may be procured in Gods way and not in our way.