The Good Life

I have heard of the good life, but have never seen it. This life, for anyone who is observant, is not good, and the lack of good correlates with the lack of fearing God or having an absolute “goodness” by which to judge all things.

In our world today we have Machiavellian leaders, who, on the surface, make it look like they care about the people. There are religions whose members are brutally dismembering young men who disagree with them and desire freedom, and brutally raping, selling, and using women as they would cattle. Our nation, who has often cared for the helpless of the world, seems to be silent, indifferent or even incapable of helping now.

We seem confused and this confusion causes tremendous instability. Boys and girls no longer know if they are boys or girls, advertisements are trying to create perceptions and turn them into reality, and men and women who got caught on the Ashley Madison site are committing suicide, because they got caught.

If we were a good nation, full of good people, we would not be able to know such things were happening and do nothing about it.

Recently, in regions of our country, they were voting on legalizing pot which, if passed, would  add to an already dysfunctional system of government money, alcohol, and unemployment.

We pay superstar athletes millions while paying the elementary school teachers and coaches who gave them their foundations barely a livable wage.

Alcoholic beverages have become normal in Christian celebrations, yet they are the main cause of domestic destruction. 

Donald Trump is a viable candidate for President because he is brash and says what he is thinking, and that seems to be tipping the other candidates who have perfected the art of saying things in a way that is acceptable to all and yet, in essence, say nothing.

Some have said that we enjoy wealth, so it is the good life. Yet, the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, comfort, and fame will leave us minimizing relationships, using others to satisfy our desires, lazy, and consumed with perceptions.

When people are consumed with themselves, which we are, there is no good life to be had.

I think that we would be having the good life if we were enjoying God, and poor people seem to do that better than the rich.

It is time for true repentance. It is our only hope, our only way out, and the way God has created for a nation to fix what is wrong.

It starts with the simple fact of acknowledging that God is God and I am not, and we go from there, discovering who He is, why He made us, and how we fit into the grand plan.