#1917
Unfiltered View of
the World
"The people
recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their
automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment." - Herbert Marcuse
"This is the record of the ancestry of Jesus Christ who
was the descendant of both David and Abraham: Abraham was the father of
Isaac, who was the father of Jacob, who was the father of Judah
and his brothers, who was the father of Perez and Zerah (whose mother was
Tamar). Perez was the father of Hezron, who
was the father of Ram..." (Matthew
1:1-3) and this begins the Book of Matthew, first book of the New
Testament...God's message to the world, after 700 years of silence, the time
between the last verse of the book of Malachi of the Old Testament and now
Matthew. To every unbeliever, and
unbelief is your only condemnation before God, the Creator of the Universe, the
world and everything in it, actually wrote a book, 2000 years on this side of
the cross, on which his son died, the Bible is still the world's best
seller.
Now, twenty-first century, life pursuits of escapism,
whether the pill bottle or soap operas from a talking box, the hearts and minds
of most real human beings with which I come in contact is a need for
truth. Our prayer at this Christmas, as
well as everyday of the year, in this time of just going through the motions,
we plead, we beg for politicians-pastors-physicians-and even parents, those who
are responsible for truth, we just want truth.
We know this present world is not a utopia, communism
promises utopia and we see what has happened to communism everywhere it has
been tried...Russia , Cuba , Yugoslavia ,
Burma . Manmade solutions always fail. Satan always pays off with counterfeit.
With the idols of technology, God's air filled with messages
(texting, world web) have we forgotten that God already knows everything? Should hacking be such a mystery: one billion
bits of information stolen here, another million stolen there, thousands such as
with Mrs. Clinton, somehow lost? An unfiltered
view of the disasters brought upon ourselves, just USA , $200 trillion debt in
entitlements and other obligations. A
debt that can never be repaid, every child born in America , is born into slavery,
while financial junkies take satisfaction in a nineteen thousand Dow
average.
Have we reached the place of no return, a return to
sanity? Are our lives totally out of
control OR, totally in control of others?
Where is the freedom that our ancestors crossed violent oceans, fought
violent wars, worked-studied-prayed for the liberty of personal
responsibility?
I was just a child when socialism reared its ugly head in America , it
started with the controls of FDR and his communist vice president, Henry
Wallace. I still remember my mother and
grandmother standing in the front yard crying, as government officials, after
their measuring tapes, cut down wonderful growing crops-killed pigs to respond
to a certain number-killed chickens to respond to a certain number on each
farm. On our farm, they cut down the crops
at the end of each row because corn-cotton-beans-tobacco would often get
damaged at the end of row crops. But,
that hardworking black farmer who owned a small farm near us, they controlled
his farm operation (agricultural stabilization control) by cutting down his
crops midfield...his best tobacco-corn-etc.
And so the controls of our lives began.
And now it worsens everyday...a permit-license-payoff for everything you
do. AND, the majority around us who
vote, think we are a land of freedom and liberty.
We think we vote for representative government, that someone
at the courthouse, statehouse, and White House loves us. We are loved like birds love road kill, you
are lucky to even get a written response from your local government representative
anymore. The main concern of every
elected official is just one simple thing, reelection.
One of my best friends, Robert Futrell, NC3, assistant to
the congressman, Robert was killed in a plane crash, he was raised in a village
called Grantham...just as Margaret Thatcher was raised in a village called
Grantham, in an apartment above her father's butcher shop. Robert, an attorney, told me that the
congressman's entire day and that of his large staff was punctuated by free
buffets and cocktail parties furnished by lobbyists. He told me that the only letter his
congressional staff ever got really excited about was one that a black farmer
had written them on a brown paper bag...probably his only stationary.
This writer is often invited to speak before conferences or
meetings of pastors, years ago, just the beginnings of the computer craze, one
pastor waxed eloquently about megabytes.
Later, I told these pastors that this blind, once sighted, world
traveler had been to both the North and South Poles, I told about the millions
of square miles of just glaciers at the top and bottom of the world. I said, all these millions of square miles of
ice encapsulation were formed by individual snowflakes. Do you know that there have never been two
snowflakes found that our Creator, God designed exactly the same? I said, I have crossed Siberia
on the great Russian Trans-Siberian Railroad, everything covered with
snow." I saw Lake Baikal
Forget the tinsel and mistletoe, forget the decorations on
the tree...the spending a spreeing of a holy day that has become a commercial
holiday. Is it not enough just to think
of the gift that God gave to the world? And
this baby, putting on a tent of human flesh, dwelled among us AND, in every one
of his 35 miracles, God was revealed through him, to us.
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