Lord Over Master?

It’s very discouraging of late to hear some of the conflicting reports we receive form news reporters and commentators. The H1N1 flu (swine flu) is looming at our door and all the promises of “in time” vaccine inoculations are waning in the gloom of impending disaster. By the time enough vaccine to go around arrives, the flu season will be in full bloom and not much good to anyone. (Just my opinion.) I heard the other day taxpayers might be able to claim their pets and receive a $1500 deduction next year. I guess the money to cover that will come from the farmers and ranchers possibly being taxed for the methane emissions leaking from their cows. The state wants to raise the gasoline tax again to improve and construct more roads. The current tax is more than ample, except the money is being diverted to other pet projects. The country is in deep financial crisis yet the fed has spent three times more money this year than last year at this time. Well, I could rant for ages, but it just seems to me that the responsibilities we have shouldered on our elected “servants” are simply being brushed off onto the floor to be ignored and trampled over. Our politicians are listening to less than 20% of the population because they’re screaming the loudest and the proverbial squeaky wheel gets the grease, right or wrong. American’s better wake up because the world already owns you, monetarily.
Did you hear about the hospital patient who accidently spilled a half-empty glass of water at his bedside? Fearing he might slip on the spill, he asked a nurse’s aide to clean it up for him. The patient didn’t know it, but while hospital policy states that small spills are the responsibility of nurse’s aides, large spills were to be mopped up by the hospital’s housekeeping group. Well, the nurse’s aide decided the spill was a large one, so called the housekeeping department. A housekeeper arrived and declared the spill a small one. An argument ensued. Each claimed it was not their responsibility. The patient listened for a time, then took a pitcher of water from his bed table and poured its contents on the floor. “Is that a big enough puddle for the two of you to decide?” he asked. It was, and that was the end of the argument. How long are you going to sit around and listen to all the petty fussing and feuding before you start acting?
Three old men were in the doctor’s office at the same time for memory testing. The doctor said to the first, “What is three times three?” The old man replied, “274.” The doctor said to the second man, “It’s your turn. What is three times three?” “Tuesday!” replied the man. The doctor says to the third man, “OK, your turn. What’s three times three?” “Nine” says the third man. “That’s great,” says the doctor. “How did you get that?” “Simply” says the third man. “I subtracted 274 from Tuesday.” I’ll bet this is a basic level entry question for a Federal Accounting position. The third answer is correct.
[Philippians 2: 1-11] During the birth of our nation, most of the newly formed states constitutions declared that men running for, or appointed to, state government positions had to be believers of the New Testament of the Bible and living a life worthy of following its principles. Just think, if our elected officials all had the attitude of Christ Jesus, willing to come down off their self-built pedestals to become a servant to the people, how much different this country would be today. How is it that the servant lives better than the master? How can the servant Lord over the Master? Something’s wrong!