Before the Screen Fades

“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” —Romans 1:25

Modern man builds a world of wires and glass, but the voice of God still calls him back to the real. —D.

Modern man believes himself free, yet he is bound by chains of his own making. He stares into glowing screens and takes their flickering reflections for truth. The more he watches, the less he sees. He builds his world from code and circuitry, from algorithms and simulations, and calls it progress. But beneath the pixelated surface, there is no ground, only air and delusion. He has traded the truth of God for a lie, and that lie now rules him. His rebellion is not wildness but control. He stubbornly refuses to kneel, to pray, to say with a whole heart, Thy will be done.

And still, the truth waits. God’s voice calls not with thunder but with steadiness, beckoning man back to the ground, back to the good, back to the real. It calls through creation, through conscience, through Christ Himself: Come out of your illusions. Come into the light. Not the blue-lit glow of a screen, but the Light that made the stars. He is called to abandon the lies he feeds on, to leave behind the false world he has conjured, and to remember that only the eternal remains. Only Jesus—the Way, the Truth, and the Life—can bear the weight of reality.

The question is not whether this false world will collapse. It will. The screen will go dark. The signal will fail. The image will fade. The question is whether man will awaken before that moment comes. Before the silence returns. Before he finds himself standing barefoot on the earth he long ignored, with nothing in his hands but longing and the voice of God still waiting to be answered.