#1982 God as Cosmic Boss

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;

For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.

Thou’art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,

And poppy’or charms can make us sleep as well

And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die."

-John Donne (Holy Sonnet 10)

            The basis of civilized society, boundaries. When I was a child, at a nearby beach, there was an area of entertainment for children called "bumper cars." Children could pay a certain charge and get into the car, drive it all around the area, having great fun bumping into one another. There were no boundaries, no lines separating anything; it was just mechanized madness, much as it would be in our local cities/highways/race-tracks if there were no rules...no do's and don'ts, no absolutes, just a free-for-all to drive any way you wish.

            This writer has been totally blind for about fifty years, and owned many nice cars, which I have never seen. I hire someone to drive for me. Often my driver would say, "Doc, it's a good thing you cannot see, because you would not believe the madness on this highway." Do people with an IQ above room temperature actually believe that they can keep producing motor vehicles for highway's that can travel at great speeds, while in this world of technology, driver's are actually talking and texting on telephones. Their minds completely away from the job at hand. And, we wonder why there are so many vehicle crashes, so many lives lost, so many drivers recuperating in hospital beds.

            There has always been a necessity for boundaries, for absolute rules of (distinguishing) right from wrong. America has the world's largest prisoner population, because when young people begin to make their own decisions, they make the wrong ones...whether it be addictions, out of control sexual appetites, taking property (thievery) of someone else, or just thinking they can live in this world without boundaries. In my maturity, we went to school and prepared for work. Getting a job was as natural as breathing, it was even important to KEEP a job, to develop a good reputation, a good resume. With this same liberal silliness of an eclectic who makes money by selling liquor to the people they will later arrest for drinking it, we now make life so comfortable, all for laziness. The Government allows you to just sit home and do nothing, while receiving monthly checks. In fact, if you know how to play all your cards right, work all the Government programs and disability rackets, you could make more money staying at home watching trash on your T.V. or computer screens, than you can by working an honest job.

            The honor of work/labor is no longer acceptable. The scam is now preferred and hallowed by the incompetent incorrigibles. Most lazy people have no fear of God, or Government. And, who needs God when you have Government? There was a time when people prayed to God to take care of their needs. Now, the lazy citizen just looks to the Government for everything. There were church boundaries, but the lost just look at Church as a place for promoting guilt and greed. The very first thing you hear from an unsaved person, when you present to them the beautiful message of salvation, "I am as good as the hypocrites that go to church!" And, we are sorry to say, many of them ARE.

            Christians are supposed to be different; not entangled by the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, or lust for the sinful nature of the world. But, Christians do not want to be different. Most Christians I know want to dress, talk, and enjoy the same entertainment, etc, that the lost of the world enjoy. The Christian wants popularity, and God told us that popularity with the world is enmity.  "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." (1 John 2 15:17)

            There is no substitute for a life of obedience. Look at any person past the age of fifty, and note that they all were creative...creative in a job, creative with talent, even creative in producing good family life. Why would any parent spend the time, go through the risk, expenses, to raise children who never amount to anything; while knowing, down deep inside, that your own children will probably spend eternity in Hell. You have wasted your life, and wasted years of productive life with your children, if you do not think they will spend eternity with you in Heaven. It is time for the truth, God is BOSS. Most parents do not actually believe in Heaven or Hell. Rather, they just think that at death their bodies will simply become fertilizer...that everything they have been told about their soul is just superstition.

            As one black woman said to me, "I keep going to Church, just because there may be something to it." If this is the only reason for doing it, your belief system, you're wasting your time. If the love of God, the sacrifice of Jesus, is not as real to you as breathing, then your life is for nothing. God requires two things from those he has chosen for life; trust in him, and love thy neighbor.