I used to wonder how a man like Adolf Hitler could infect a culture in such a way that people would shun all form of right moral reasoning, see their infected culture as the only deserving survival at the expense of all else, with the only ultimate threat being the culture led by right moral reasoning. How could an entire people be led astray into such a life of absolute absurdity? Then it grabbed me. There was another man, who infected a culture in such a way that they were taught to adhere to moral reasoning, see their infected culture as one needing a turn from empty religious practices and sin, surviving not only this life, but in an eternal glorious one, absent of absolute absurdity, reveling in righteous response to a risen Savior; all this, standing opposed to the other way of leading and thinking.
We all are growing weary of putting our trust in failing men of promise, a failing economy, failing wars, failing marriages, failing employment and are looking for a real savior. A person of conviction and charisma. A person with a plan and the ability to make the world a better place to exist, who seems to gather others seemingly capable of accomplishing such a task. Saddening is that we allow ourselves to become followers of men, and in this pursuit become infected with a disease that dulls our senses allowing heinous crimes, empty comfort and vacuum of lies to encroach upon us with no solutions; like spectators of life desiring change yet impotent to effect it.
The road to murderer is rarely an overnight decision. Bit by bit the value of life is removed from the one who eventually takes a life. They come to feel as if they are more deserving of some aspect of life itself than their victim, and being deceived, snatch the very thing they cherish in themselves from someone else.
While this is the most extreme form of absolute absurdity, we, the people, seem to be heading down a similar road. As our nation declines in leadership, innovation and righteousness, we seem to be turning to 'the wrong' god(s). Integrity fading, commitment and sound thinking waning, we are being tossed as if in the ravages of a storm on the sea thrown about in a dingy.
Is it not time to be real reflectors of righteousness in response to the only wise God? Is it not time to fully impute our trust, our passion, our service into His hands and under His continual leading? Are we listening and desiring to be ALL that He wants us to be?
I find myself wanting to move from a life accepting absolute absurdity to one of righteous response...not to my own heart, or the 'goodness' which lies within (ah yes, my goodness is a lie), but to the truth, the power and manifold grace of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and God; His goodness is true. To live as a citizen of heaven, imparting heavenly goodness and blessing to those around me, this is my desire. To serve and invest in that which will bring eternal benefit and glory...to God, yet again is my desire. Will you join me in the listening? Can we, together change our world in such a way that the power and majesty of His righteousness and mercy will pour into the lives of our friends, neighbors and community? I have many friends who are doing exactly this, and I want to stand with them. Together we can let God restore His peace, His guidance, His protection, His blessing on us, a nation who used to believe and live "In God we trust". It is time to move from lives headed toward absolute absurdity to ones of righteous response to His leading, standing and living together, with God.
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