Seemingly Unrelated

I hope I’m not alone here, but I’m tired of opening a door to enter a building and watching twenty or more crickets exploding into the room ahead of me. With perfect environmental conditions this year, we sure had a bumper crop of those noisy little critters. The birds have certainly benefitted from the banquet of over-abundance in the food chain along with the roaming neighborhood felines now fat and sassy. I think the hotter, drier weather has the crickets on the wane. The only thing we have to put up with now is the stench of dead crickets everywhere. This to shall pass. I wish that were the only problem we face in this world today, but a lot of other things stink in a far worse way than dead crickets. I fail to understand why big business refuses to learn from the mistakes of others. This oil well failure in the Gulf should have never happened. Call it an accident if you want, but every “accident” investigation ever conducted has reveled that two or more seemingly unrelated events had to come together causing the “accident”. Several known, ignored problems existed on that oil platform, if corrected, would have prevented the “accident” in the first place, but combined at just the right time, became explosive. All the things tried by BP to stop the flow of oil were tried in the late 70’s off the coast of Mexico with no success, yet they tried them anyway, why? With all the forked tongued double-talk about how everything is going to be okay, this “accident” still has the potential to become a huge environmental disaster. It’s still all about how much the bottom line is going to suffer.
A couple went to breakfast at a restaurant where the “seniors’ special” was two eggs, bacon, hash brown and toast for $1.99. “Sounds good”, said the woman, “but I don’t want the eggs.” “Then I’ll have to charge you $2.49 because you’re ordering a la carte”, the waitress warned her. “You mean I’d have to pay for not taking the eggs?” the woman asked incredulously. “YES!!” stated the waitress. “I’ll take the special then”, said the woman. “How would you like your eggs?” asked the waitress. “Raw and in the shell”, the woman politely replied. She took the two eggs home. To survive these days you have to think like big business, it’s all about the bottom line. Right?
Two deaf men were in a coffee shop discussing their wives. One signed to the other, “Boy was my wife angry with me last night. She went on and on and wouldn’t stop!” The other signed back, “When my wife goes off on me I just don’t listen.” The first man inquired, “How do you do that?” With a smile he signed, “I turn off the lights.”
[2 Chronicles 7: 11-22] “…If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” We know what happened to the Temple and the City of Jerusalem; they were destroyed because the people turned away from God. Look around you; look at this country founded on the principles of God and His Word. We as a people are committing spiritual suicide and in the end this great nation will be aborted by God if we don’t humble ourselves and repent our selfish ways. Pornography, abortion, gambling, cheating, lying, worship of material things, drugs, defilement of the marriage bed, disassembling of the family, etc; are all seemingly unrelated events going on in this country which will one day bring us to our knees. The bottom line is, repent, and get on your knees this very day. Pray!