TO KNOW CHRIST AND TO MAKE HIM KNOWN

TO KNOW CHRIST AND TO MAKE HIM KNOWN

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

What Actually Matters?

My first response to Spike Lee declaring he won’t use Chrisette Michele’s music in his Netflix series was like the response I usually feel when someone in a prison declares a hunger strike. For some reason, I cannot see how it matters to anybody.

I do not know any of Chrisette Michele’s music and I could not name one thing that Spike Lee is involved in (Except for Netflix, I guess…) but I cannot help but wonder how this is different than someone who owns a bakery not selling a cake to a homosexual couple.

Spike Lee is refusing to use Chrisette’s music because she has chosen to somehow, loosely at best, associate herself with President Trump. The bakery owners were refusing to serve a homosexual couple because of how they associate themselves. Why is the media ignoring this “hate” talk by Spike Lee or is does hate talk only take place when conservatives challenge liberal lifestyles?

On the day of the inauguration I saw the windows of a Starbucks and a bank get smashed buy a crowd that was protesting Donald Trump. The breaking of the windows of local businesses accomplished nothing and would be considered hate crimes if a conservative crowd was involved but because it supported the liberal’s ideology it was a protest that got out of control. (When I looked at the television pictures of the crowd I saw more reporters with their cameras in the police line’s face than protesters.)

The day after the inauguration there was a women’s march in Washington and various cities around the world. I watched and listened so I could try and figure out what it was these ladies were trying to accomplish. I heard much hate speech and eventually  figured out that they must just need a channel to demonstrate their hatred. So, they did.

I do not think we as a nation are better off now that many ladies cursed, lied and marched and I think most of us who watched the demonstration have no idea what they wanted. It reminded me of the time a reporter interviewed a child that skipped school to protest the “evils” of Governor Walker, of Wisconsin. When he was asked what he was protesting he had to look at someone for the answer and eventually said something to the order of “he is a bad person,” not even knowing who “he” was.

These protests brought me the same feeling I get when I watch an advertisement on television and have no clue as to what they were advertising.

Sometimes people begin to forsake the very attributes that make them human and act more like a herd than a human.

This is the United States of America and children have the right to protest people they do not know for reasons they do not understand. Spike Lee has the freedom to use or not use someone’s music for whatever reason he chooses. Chrisette can choose to sing or not sing at anybody’s inauguration and bakery owners can serve or not serve people based on personal convictions.

Those who damage other people’s property should be held accountable to the damages and both sides should condemn such actions and reporters who are fueling the fires of dissent rather than just reporting should be disregarded.

Today, it seems like the latest “silent” movement in our nation is to bypass the media. If I am typical of the “silent majority” in this nation, then they do not believe anything the media reports. We need not get into a “Twitter” debate but we should look at why President Trump and millions of people find it fascinating and necessary.

Direct access to the news and news makers is more important than listening to the news. The media has lost its power and influence over the educated masses and now can only control those who live in their pretend world and there are less and less people who want to drink their Kool-Aid.

A Godless nation struggles to create “truth” and struggles with personal identity when someone disagrees with their “truth.” Truth is not dependent upon the masses acceptance of it to be truth. Truth is not dependent upon eloquence, feelings or the timing of the message. Truth is not available exclusively to specific genders, political parties, churches, races, or geographical areas.

Having someone agree with you or convincing that the masses are “right,” does not mean you or they are “right.”

We cannot make up truth we need to discover it and the only place to find it is God.

The problem in a Godless nation is that it is Godless and therefore they cannot live in the truth. If we, as a nation, cannot correct that, then we will live in confusion as each man/woman does what is right in their own eyes. When one does what is right in their own eyes, they, in essence, become a “god.” When there are many “gods” demanding that all things revolve around them we have mass confusion.

A nation that lives in confusion acts like they are confused and confused people make very little “sense.”

We are not a divided nation because of political ideology but because we have no basis for truth. The solution is not more debate, committee meetings or future elections. The solution is for our nation to recognize its sin, repent and come back to God.

There will be those who disagree with me and they are welcomed to do so in any respectful manner they choose. There are those who would disagree with God and, again, they, for now, are free to do so. However, they will one day wish they had humbled themselves before Him rather than challenge Him.  For now, the choice is ours.















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