Regardless the sophistication of the broader societal context or the depth of individual acculturation, the fundamental problem of the human condition persists despite all personal and corporate attempts to overcome the corrupt and malevolent base of humanity's form.
Putrefaction cannot be obfuscated, it will out beyond any attempt to blind the sense otherwise. Mortality combines with scarcity into violence and brutality- even if veiled in the subtlest of institutionalized forms commanding compliance, no matter how civilized the culture.
This is mankind's nakedness clothed as we will, in tails or togas. We are insatiable, except as we are promised to be fed. Wild beasts made pets to our desires- subjects of objects, referents without reverence, trapped to mundanity, kneeling in profanity for a paltry some of meagerness overly divided.
Claim as you might to be free or even unbound- humanity has each of us firmly within its grasp, until our grip from this life shall be loosened, either now or in finality.
This is the darkness haunting the spiritless soul, the tension of death to come and a race of life that cannot be won. Nothing can be built up that will not fall, nothing can be earned that must not eventually be spent or left wasted. Fruitless endeavoring into oblivion and worse still judgement of these many ways compared with holiness typically otherwise unknown.
Now, with sufficient entertainment of the less practical soul and despondency of the deepest, comes the greatest praise to the only remedy for the human condition. From such sorrow rises acclimation of a Savior, unlike any mere man. The God-man, Christ- come from eternal perfection and glory, outside of this fallen creation degraded, to restore-redeem-renew.
What no man or system of man can ever do, the atoning work of Christ and powerful working of the Spirit accomplishes singularly and thus combined, because He prefined even time, as the divine and sublime. Granting as He will this understanding that is beyond comprehension that in such a sacrifice of His mortal flesh is complete recompense for our fallenness so it should no more be trespass. That His children born of Spirit birthed in death to this life should live eternally, being conformed no longer to the form of corruption rather now after His image of righteousness - ultimately to be freed in His Glory. Here is where worship cries forth Holy Holy Holy Lord, Praise Eternal.
