I feel like
I am living in the Twilight Zone!
#1 It is after midnight and I’m on the internet.
That always puts me in some other dimension far, far away.
#2 The world has gone completely upside down! In
the media right now, there is a former Olympic star grandfather that is
mutilating himself and attempting to turn himself into a woman. I can’t believe
that there is even one person on this planet that thinks this is a wonderful
thing to do. I can’t believe that there
is one person that doesn’t think this man is mentally deranged. I think America
is still on board in thinking that a girl who cuts her wrists needs counseling,
right? Maybe? Britany Spears cut off all
of her hair only 8 years ago and the world reached out to her to seek
professional help. 8 years later, a man castrates himself and he is labeled as
a hero. What the hell happened in 8 years? – Except that we got a new president….
Also in the
media, the Duggar family from 19 kids and Counting has been in the spotlight
because the police chief in Arkansas gave a tabloid the sealed records of their
14 year old son and the victims of his molestation. She gave it to a tabloid! And you would think
that America would be up in arms at this injustice. How dare this system
promise these children privacy so they could feel free to pour out their hearts
and then give this report to a sleezy tabloid 12 years later?! But nope! No one
seems to care. In this twilight zone of a country we live in, everyone wants to
tar and feather the repentant child and ignore the victims.
We have
Ferguson, Baltimore, Cleveland, New York and (insert the next towns in the next
few months) that are rioting, killing, stealing and destroying their towns.
People MADE UP stories of the poor humungous young black, unarmed thief that
had his hands up demanding that he not be shot. People wanted to believe this
story so bad. Why? They WANT racial tension? They WANT the rioting and
violence?
Then we have
our local Catholic bishop. He wrote a letter to everyone in the diocese about
the dangers of pornography. He instituted the God’s Protecting Children program
that every blessed person 14 and up have to take if you think about being in
the same vicinity of a child. We had a bishop that did more than any other
bishop in America to protect children and guess who is the first bishop forced
out of his position because one of his sheep was caught (caught because of
God’s Protecting Children program) with child pornography? You guessed it. Sin
is alive and well in this country folks.
WHY are
people desiring and thirsting for sin? Why do people grab on to bad news and
HOPE that it is true? Who are these people?
I know that God made
everyone in His image and likeness. I also know that this fact makes everyone
desire Him whether they know it or not. The people that believe they can do a
better job than God Himself still desire Him and that results in a raging fight
between good and evil. It is like a
rebel child fighting against his good father. The good father never gives up.
He is always trying to win his son’s heart. The son who wants nothing to do
with him fights and then turns ugly and vicious as his daddy continues to
search for him. That is just what is
going on with the people that thirst for evil and call it good and at the same
time thirst for evil from a Christian and smile. It is the same smile Satan
gives when a Christian sins.
I have this sign hanging on my wall. (My dear friends had this hanging over every door way in their home before they moved but forgot one. Now its mine:) They had put this up to have a constant reminder about Who they are truly thirsting for. When I am frustrated or desiring something big or trivial, I will pass this sign and remember that my authentic thirst is for God. I am going to hang this over every one of my doorways too!
Do I have
hope for our future? Well, I have hope for the eschatological man. We will each
get what we choose. Who do we love more? God?......or our sin?
We each get
to choose and a good God will give us what we have chosen.
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