9stines- Merthiolate For The Christian Soul

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I was reading the various news sources I have this morning as I prepare to take my daughters to their acting practice and became somewhat discouraged. Most of the news I read comes from Christian sources. Occasionally I will read from other sources such as Fox. I will not read from liberal sources unless the subject matter is sterile and can’t somehow be blamed on Christians, Bush, or Republicans.

I have been grieved by some of the subject matter I have been seeing. Killings by the hundreds, perverse stories that you would have never dreamed would even be covered, and well, just so many other things I can’t list here. What I have been noticing is that everyone else is not noticing that we are heading toward a stop with destiny- the soon return of Jesus Christ.

I sometimes stop and ask myself, ‘what happened’? What made homosexuals so bold that they would even think that any right thinking person would think thier lifestyle is ok? What made Islamic people think that they had dibs on the world? What makes minorities think they have the right to take from others what does not belong to them because they have not earned it? Why would American born blacks want to be called Afro-American? Do they not see that by title alone they are seperating themselves from others? Makes no sense. What makes Catholic Priests think that they are going to get by with molesting kids? What makes teen perfomers think that we want to see a kid looking like a sex starved whore? What makes talk show hosts think that people think its cool to do degrading things on the air? Why do people think that government owes them anything? Why do kids hate thier parents? Why do parents hate thier kids? Why is material things so important to people? Why do people invest so much to become wealthy on earth but invest nothing in God’s kingdom. Why is it so important for churches to grow like corporations and there to be a church practically on every corner now but no evidence in society that they are getting the gospel out? Why on God’s green earth would a church have a coffee stand and donoughts in the foyer before the service? Why do church leaders fall for the Satanic “seeker sensitive” crap permeating the church today? We are indeed a very sick and dying world and Christendom is part of the problem.

Ok, I know that I am being a bit much here. But, it really seems that the world is coming apart at the seams. I have never seen so much selfishness. And, how quickly we have forgotten the 911 wakeup call. Churches were busting at the seams and the leaders FAILED! Hello, newsflash…you don’t want to hear that that was a wakeup call, a judgement? Are you really that blind? Think about this a second, you really think that a bunch of radical killers could just pull off a stunt like that on thier own power? We kill babies, legally, we laud sodomites, we tolerate killers by giving them light sentences, We allow suspected killers such as OJ to write books on how he would have killed his wife had he done it to profit himself? Are you freaking serious? We allow an immoral president who swore he did not have sex with a woman other than his wife to come on and later apologize because he DID have sex with her, and many others, and today he is still a powerful political leader!!?

I am 39 and have had a very close brush with death. I can see the value of life. I see the value of giving that life to the One who made it. I am so much more grieved now by the foolishness of men. Everyday, so many people are going to eternity into fire- forever! We are worried about retirement when just a few short years after the retirement we will be dead. worked all that time just to have all the good stuff when your body is tired achy and well, decaying- makes no sense to attempt to live extravagantly does it?

I know I have offended. If so, I am sorry for that. My frustration is not aimed at any particular person but rather our world at large. I am thankful to God for all the little things that bring blessings like a smile from a child, a purr from a cat, a dinner with the family together. Why can we not live more simpler lives? Why can we not all love the Lord and put Him before ourselves? Imagine what the world would be like. Imagine, John Lennon had the solution to that song all along and he had some power to do something about it, but he missed it. Now, he knows the truth and well, I imagine he is regretting so much.

Enough of my ramblings.