To Yearn For What Is Right

To Yearn for What Is Right

What’s wrong?

What’s wrong with the world? What’s wrong with people? What’s wrong with you?

Most people ask these questions on too regular a basis. We look at the world and want to pull our hair out for all the senselessness. We can’t imagine the things that people do for the most meaningless reasons—and, to our frustration, why we do what we do may be the greatest mystery of all.

What’s wrong isn’t right, but it can be made right. The world will be made right, but if you’re like most, that’s beyond your scope and control. What about other people? For the most part, you can’t make them right either. But you can look to yourself.

What’s wrong matters. It alerts you to the absence of what is right, and if you’re listening, that absence should alert you to your yearning for what is right.

Truly yearning for what is right is where this journey begins.

Creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth. . . . We wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. —Romans 8:22–23