Preface: Who or what changed us? The first evidence of our change....on compassion anyway....came as we dealt with illegal immigration. We had the law on our side....there is no doubt about that....and our motives were initially compassionate towards all parties involved....but then we changed....and these were no longer people involved.....but statistics.....worse then that actually.....enemies. Then our nominee for president came to us with promises like this....that he would keep low-income housing away from the suburbs where we live....and we rallied in our golf cart and boat parades. Once again these were not people....but demographics. Then came the virus....and the deaths mounted up....and we had to find an excuse for not caring. We found it with the word....premorbid....'they were going to die anyway'....and....'they died with Covid-19....not from Covid-19. And now we can see the change on the issue of Putin and the Ukraine. Once again these aren't real people involved.....but just a corrupt 'client-state' population. So who changed us? How did we come to the point where we are morally outraged over a Canadian truck driver who is forced to get a communicable disease vaccination....but have stone-cold hearts as human beings die in war?
Personal freedoms and liberty have become our god. The reason for this is that we lost the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ in our churches and evangelicalism on the whole. With that great hope no longer within us....at least no longer in the forefront of our minds.....our discernment atrophied to almost non-existence....our pulpits having buckled to the rantings of a false prophet....and chaos ruling everywhere in America.....we tried to assuage our guilt at no longer glorying in Christ by grabbing on to something to make us appear relevant. Thus we think that we are great patriots....defending religious liberty....keeping churches open at all costs....in spite of the fact that they are mostly social gatherings….(the cross being replaced with the flag pin)....and now still fighting against a simple vaccine....but we are as Hophni and Phinehas....who after a defeat to the Philistines....ran to get the Ark of the Covenant.....for surely God would give victory with that on the front line....but we were unaware that God had already departed from us.....Ichabod.....as the child was named.
Here's but one thing that changed us....I'll put no names to this....just about all of them are cookie cutouts anyway....talk radio hosts.....formerly conservative talk radio hosts but now Trump talk radio hosts.....who I've pleaded with Christians for years to flee from these people.....flee from these people....they are taking you away from Christ! They mention God all the time....they will even use scripture....but they haven't a clue! One of them has been smirking for a few weeks on how a Russian invasion of the Ukraine was a hoax....a familiar and much used word to them. Folks....I've been a talk radio person since my teens....but this man takes the cake for venom spewed....as he is the only host who you can actually hear him taking a deep breath....as he reluctantly tries to keep more anger from coming out. They give you half the information....at best....and that is it. And then there is Tucker Carlson. I'm not exaggerating here....I watched a clip of him yesterday.....and had to turn it off after about ten seconds. He apparently has no compass at all. His method of speech and the facial expressions and outward appearance are very effective with conservatives today who no longer want to rely on the intellect....but only want to be told what great patriots that they are.
Thursday.....2/24/22....7:00 PM.....or 1900 hours military time: As of today there has been no public mention of reinstating the draft.....but expect talk of it before too long.....for they have no choice....as a two-front global war is definitely a possibility. The next draft will have no college deferments.....other than finishing out the semester that a draftee would be in. I doubt that the readers here would like hearing of this.....but we have had two decades and more to see where this world was heading....and what God's Word said about it....and to turn our attention back to where it should have been....on the God that planted this nation.....and sustained it for almost 250 years.....for His purposes.....not ours. We might want to keep this Bible verse in mind from 1 Thessalonians 5:3...."While people are saying,'There is peace and security,' then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape." I bring this verse up because we are in the habit of at least thinking about God when wars look to possibly be on the horizon....but just as quickly forget God and go back to our entertainments when war tremors subside....and our pulpits go back to telling us how much God loves us just the way we are....as if the pastors never imagined that we might in fact be like rebellious Israel or Judah.....oblivious apparently to Jeremiah's warning in 7:4...."Do not trust in these deceptive words: 'This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD'.".....thinking God would never bring judgment upon His people.
