Sleeping Through It All

Well, we have our two Presidential nominees confirmed who will be waging battle with each other for the next two months trying to gain the trust of voters, thus winning the vote in November. They will each spend over two hundred million dollars while they tell us how they’re going to save the economic structure of the country. I have a hard time dealing with the wild spending of money our politicians have never earned. Once again the Sunday Comics and my friend Baldo may have shed some light on why this country is confused and Washington is broken. Baldo is standing in front of an ATM showing signs of indecision as what to do next after being instructed by the machine to “Please Select Your Language”. Of course the options are “English” and “Spanish”. Well, Baldo, being a young Latino teen with a firm grasp of both languages, pushes both buttons at the same time, crashing the computer. Maybe that’s what’s happening in Washington. I think too many buttons are being pushed at the same time and that’s why nothing’s getting done. Oh well, what do I know. It’s a comic strip. Nonsense, right?
Here’s a little something we can pass along to our public servants. “You tell on yourself by the friends you seek, By the very manner in which you speak, By the way you employ your leisure time, By the use you make of the dollar and the dime. You tell on yourself by the things you wear, By the spirit in which you your burdens bear, By the kind of things that make you laugh, By the places you go to photograph. You tell on yourself by the way you walk, By things in which you delight to talk, By the manner in which you bear defeat, By so simple a thing as how you eat. By the books you choose from a well filled shelf, In these ways and more you tell on yourself. So there is not a particle of sense, In an effort to keep up a false pretense.” Please wake-up, Washington!
Do you remember the story of Rip Van Winkle? He fell asleep one day in a quiet out of the way spot on the banks of the Hudson River and didn’t wake up for twenty years. He fell asleep a subject of the British crown and awoke an American citizen. The tragic part was, he slept through the revolution that brought him freedom from the dictatorship of King George III, depositing him into a life of liberty and happiness. While he snored, oblivious to his surroundings, earth-shaking events had taken place. I think Rip fell asleep believing there wasn’t a thing he could do about the tyranny he lived under and I think a lot of Americans are asleep this very day thinking they can’t make a difference. People are always desensitizing issues getting you to think their way. That is, they are constantly talking about them until they mean nothing to us anymore and a lot of us are snoring in our easy chairs watching sitcoms as if they were reality.
[Luke 22: 39-46] While all of heaven watched breathlessly, Jesus’ disciples fell asleep, oblivious to the events unfolding before them in the garden. Jesus was preparing himself to die. Jesus was about to give his life in exchange for the sins of all mankind, freeing man from the slavery of sin, reuniting man with God the Creator. Sadly, most of the world is sleeping, oblivious to what Jesus has done for them. Teaching God’s truth to others has become more difficult over the years, because the purpose of the church has become desensitized through the false teachings of some. We are preoccupied with our own self-importance forgetting what is really important. Wake Up! The devil seeks you.