November 11, 2010
There are times when upheaval is necessary. The corporate world experiences it. The military experiences it when wars are lost, even the church had its Reformation. We experience upheavals in our own personal lives. It's a turning from one philosophy, one tactic, one foundation, one love to another. It can be painful or it can be exhilarating. One can be dragged into it and one can purposely charge into it. It can be peaceful and appear violent in the form of democratic elections and violent and appear peaceful as the Gospel takes hold in a person's life. We need an upheaval in America today.
Much of our corporate world has departed from its responsibility to the people it employs and public it services, where the appearance of ethics has replaced ethics itself. Higher Education has strayed from training minds to seek knowledge and truth to training minds to seek profits and self-fulfillment in spite of nagging evidences and longings for that knowledge and truth. Elementary and secondary education too often seeks to procure its own financial security while forming minds that support the legitimacy of their actions. We exalt ourselves in this society and pamper our egos through social networking. We have turned privileges into rights. We form opinions after having put no thought into it. We buy what they want us to buy and subscribe to what they want us to subscribe to, whoever they may be.. We have become a nation of followers not particularly interested in questioning those we follow as long they keep the benefits coming.
The problem is that they have reached the bottom of the well. The pensions and the entitlements are sinking the boat. The near future, even without terrorist attacks or international disasters, will not be the same America that we were raised in. The chasm between private and public sectors cannot be bridged. Either the government benefits will be adjusted or the private sector will cover the debt through taxes. Either decision will add to turmoil. Californians, last Tuesday, elected to stay on the path that brought them to where they are today. The other states eventually may either have to bail out California or watch an entity that will be proclaimed too big to fail, fail. Either decision will add to the turmoil, and other states will follow. Illegal immigration will either be halted through strict measures or one by one all the states will be overburdened and those states and its citizens affected may begin looking into seceding from the union. Either decision will bring turmoil. . The health care reform bill will either be repealed, which the Left will use to stir the Socialist pot, or it will be allowed to stand until it would be too late to see how disastrous it is. Either decision will add to the turmoil. The new Congress will either follow the Lindsey Grahams in its midst, which could very well lead to a third party, or it will follow Jim DeMint and bear the brunt of every outrageous slander the old guard can muster. Either decision will add to the turmoil.
Most of us have contributed to this mess and I contributed more than my share for the few who have not. The basis of this upheaval needs to come from the realization that we are on a path to nowhere. This society, as it is, cannot sustain itself for long either economically or philosophically. There is one remedy and one remedy only. A sufficient number in this nation of upwards of 300 million has to humble themselves before their Creator. We find ourselves at the brink and at times such as this God often pours His Spirit over the land, and as maple syrup that slowly seeps into the pancake, the people change from the inside out, without the help of political parties and hardly aware that that they have taken another path.
At times like this, in an Awakening if you will, life appears in that people, and hope. Wisdom overtakes greed; patience...insatiability; and humility....arrogance. All the right moves today, the election included, are mere reminisces of a time when the strongest fragrance in the land was that of grace and the greatest bounty was mercy. It's an impossible task, utterly inconceivable and this is to our benefit for if God were needed merely to help us, or to guide our paths, we would never fall on our knees in thanksgiving. My prayer is that this Thanksgiving, God would begin to shake the columns of hell with the same power that, at one time, gave light and heat to every atom in the universe, and apply it to an unworthy people and may He start with my stone cold heart.
There are times when upheaval is necessary. The corporate world experiences it. The military experiences it when wars are lost, even the church had its Reformation. We experience upheavals in our own personal lives. It's a turning from one philosophy, one tactic, one foundation, one love to another. It can be painful or it can be exhilarating. One can be dragged into it and one can purposely charge into it. It can be peaceful and appear violent in the form of democratic elections and violent and appear peaceful as the Gospel takes hold in a person's life. We need an upheaval in America today.
Much of our corporate world has departed from its responsibility to the people it employs and public it services, where the appearance of ethics has replaced ethics itself. Higher Education has strayed from training minds to seek knowledge and truth to training minds to seek profits and self-fulfillment in spite of nagging evidences and longings for that knowledge and truth. Elementary and secondary education too often seeks to procure its own financial security while forming minds that support the legitimacy of their actions. We exalt ourselves in this society and pamper our egos through social networking. We have turned privileges into rights. We form opinions after having put no thought into it. We buy what they want us to buy and subscribe to what they want us to subscribe to, whoever they may be.. We have become a nation of followers not particularly interested in questioning those we follow as long they keep the benefits coming.
The problem is that they have reached the bottom of the well. The pensions and the entitlements are sinking the boat. The near future, even without terrorist attacks or international disasters, will not be the same America that we were raised in. The chasm between private and public sectors cannot be bridged. Either the government benefits will be adjusted or the private sector will cover the debt through taxes. Either decision will add to turmoil. Californians, last Tuesday, elected to stay on the path that brought them to where they are today. The other states eventually may either have to bail out California or watch an entity that will be proclaimed too big to fail, fail. Either decision will add to the turmoil, and other states will follow. Illegal immigration will either be halted through strict measures or one by one all the states will be overburdened and those states and its citizens affected may begin looking into seceding from the union. Either decision will bring turmoil. . The health care reform bill will either be repealed, which the Left will use to stir the Socialist pot, or it will be allowed to stand until it would be too late to see how disastrous it is. Either decision will add to the turmoil. The new Congress will either follow the Lindsey Grahams in its midst, which could very well lead to a third party, or it will follow Jim DeMint and bear the brunt of every outrageous slander the old guard can muster. Either decision will add to the turmoil.
Most of us have contributed to this mess and I contributed more than my share for the few who have not. The basis of this upheaval needs to come from the realization that we are on a path to nowhere. This society, as it is, cannot sustain itself for long either economically or philosophically. There is one remedy and one remedy only. A sufficient number in this nation of upwards of 300 million has to humble themselves before their Creator. We find ourselves at the brink and at times such as this God often pours His Spirit over the land, and as maple syrup that slowly seeps into the pancake, the people change from the inside out, without the help of political parties and hardly aware that that they have taken another path.
At times like this, in an Awakening if you will, life appears in that people, and hope. Wisdom overtakes greed; patience...insatiability; and humility....arrogance. All the right moves today, the election included, are mere reminisces of a time when the strongest fragrance in the land was that of grace and the greatest bounty was mercy. It's an impossible task, utterly inconceivable and this is to our benefit for if God were needed merely to help us, or to guide our paths, we would never fall on our knees in thanksgiving. My prayer is that this Thanksgiving, God would begin to shake the columns of hell with the same power that, at one time, gave light and heat to every atom in the universe, and apply it to an unworthy people and may He start with my stone cold heart.
