Elephant in the Room

 

 

O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee

O Master, let me walk with thee         

in lowly paths of service free;             

tell me thy secret; help me bear          

the strain of toil, the fret of care.  

Help me the slow of heart to move     

by some clear, winning word of love;            

teach me the wayward feet to stay,     

and guide them in the homeward way.

Text: Washington Gladden, 1836-1918

Music: H. Percy Smith, 1825-1898

You only go this way one time. This one life we have is not a dress rehearsal.

I so pity the man or woman who takes their life so casually. You are here because God chose for you to be here-- you, no one else but you. Designed before the very foundation of the world, you have cause to celebrate your very existence. There were probably six billion people on earth before Noah’s flood. The earth now has a population of about seven billion. There is not another you. You have your own fingerprints, your own voice, and your own eyes with their distinct iridial flecks. There are trillions of cells in your body. Any one cell, if the information were printed out, would fill many pages. They contain everything about your ancestry.

I have two magnificent grandsons. As in your case, can you dare imagine what it took to design them? Their fathers’ mother arrived in Memphis from Arkansas to meet and marry a man from North Carolina. Their own mother, from Alabama, met and married their father from Tennessee-- all with pluses and minuses, flaws and traces of righteousness.

My divorce from these two grandson’s grandmother came easier to me when I realized that without a Bathsheba with her flaws, and David with his flaws, there would never have been a Solomon. What would the world have been like without King Solomon (known for the three W’s: wealth, wisdom, wives.) Two of his sons, Jeroboam and Rehoboam, became kings of Judah and Israel, the northern and southern Jewish nations. Both Israel and Judah each had 20 kings and 19, in, both were horrible. BUT God is boss. He was and is in charge-- everything working out for His pleasure.

In history, we always look back and can see what we think they should have seen. How could the patriots, kings, and ruling bodies of history been so stupid? Why couldn’t they see what was happening (the rise of Hitler, the stupidity of communism)? Why cant today’s world citizens comprehend what is happening to their world (total lack of morality, satanic takeover of everything, including education, entertainment, investing, sexuality, and a lackadaisical spiritual attitude)?

Whether with politics or the integrity of human beings, we know that the elephant is in the room. We don’t want to talk about that elephant. It is so much easier to be politically correct, not offend anyone, and join the broadminded crowd-- to just keep on going through the motions.

America, land of opportunity, blessed, as no other nation has been, has debts in as much as $200 trillion-- which can never be repaid. We have turned our education, entertainment, and political systems over to the satanic forces of Satan. Of the nation’s two largest Christian denominations, only 25% Catholics attend mass and even a smaller number of Baptist members attend services. 1,000 Baptist churches close down each year-- at a time in history when cottages, storefronts, and tents should be attracting masses of people who need Christ. But, in my lifetime, the lost have gotten the notion that God needs them, instead of them needing God. Around the world, with false religions and others, man wants God in his image instead of being in the image of God.

The politicians, even the highest military sources, know that it is true. There will be a nuclear war. Even under the doctrine of global destruction, the Chinese, like the Russians, have built tremendous underground facilities to take care of much of their populations. They want enough people left, following global destruction, after the many years when the poison clouds will slowly disintegrate, to grab what is left on earth and start over. We probably saw what will happen in the 1959 movie, On the Beach, when an American nuclear submarine landed at Australia, the only continent left alive. Even the Australians knew the nuclear cloud was heading their way.

Almost impossible to realize or understand, communist Russia is now attracting Christian churches-- even the KGB murderer president, Putin, in a recent issue of the New York Times, spoke about God. This is at a time when our military seeks to restrain Christian chaplains from mentioning Jesus, a time when babies are murdered, there is same sex marriage, and the gay agenda has been adopted by most groups, things are rather ignored by those who should be on the forefront in the battle for God’s glory and the preservation of mankind. From the pulpit to the political platform, from the courthouse to the schoolhouse, those who know how the game is played, know the potential of Satan to destroy, know how little time is left, are just hoping that these bad things will go away, that everything will get better; that life will return to normal. The elephant is in the room and it is far easier, and more acceptable, to just ignore him.

This world traveler, while on several trips through the 42 nations of the African continent, observed the great elephants. When young riotous bucks start giving a hard time, the old elephants take over and put the young in their place. Even the elephant, one of God’s most magnificent creatures, when one of the senior patriots dies, spends a time in mourning, walking round and round the dead body.

In another article I have described my encounter with poachers in Botswana, Africa. Would one ever believe that 96 of these magnificent animals are poached and killed every day. BUT, how could anyone care about elephants when 3,000 unborn babies are killed in America everyday-- the abortion holocaust.