Jesus encourages us to be servants of God. Without Him we can do almost nothing

Today Jesus Christ puts us in our place. We live in times when man often tries to take the place of God. For several centuries now, advances in science and technology have accelerated dramatically. That is a good thing! The problem is forgetting God, thinking that we do not need any "god," that religions are an obstacle to progress, or that we ourselves are "god"… —But have we really progressed that much? The twentieth century holds the record for killings and genocides! And what about the scandalous poverty that still exists in the twenty-first century? Progress? We are rather helpless… If only we were at least servants of God…