So, lately I have been watching as our country seriously LOSES ITS MIND! And I am beyond worries. You see in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 there is some very clear verbiage regarding end of days. "But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." I look at he news, I look on social media, I look at people and I see all of these things coming to pass. I wonder, is it possible to change these things? Can we save our people? I don't know if we can. It is like this lust for things and desires versus what is right has overtaken our country.
I have never seen such foul mouthed, Unappreciative, conceited people as I have. We have famous singers claiming to be Jesus, inciting violence and people saying it should be ok to have an abortion at 36 weeks pregnant? OMG. This has seriously got to be a joke or a bad dream I am going to wake up from. Before anyone jumps on me, I am not judging people. I am judging the judgement of our government and our culture. The culture as a whole has become about how much does an item cost. What name is on that item? Oh your purse is from Charming Charlies...that's cute, mine is from Michael Kors. Who cares. My purse is going to last as long as yours does. Just like any item it depends on how you take care of it. I don't care if you have a Volvo in your driveway. So don't tell me how much better than my car yours is. Love of money.....everyone wants to be a millionaire. Why? I want to pay my bills. Period.
If I won the lottery you can bet one thing, I'd be shocked cuz we don't play and not because we live in Alabama we just don't use our money for that. Have we yes. We have purchased a ticket for a huge jackpot. Mainly because someone once said to me well if you are willing to lose your money and you aren't planning on winning then it really isn't gambling is it. Yes potato potahtoh. But once or twice we have said well shoot if God wants us to have that money one ticket will win it. We don't go spending hundreds of bucks on tickets. We get 1. And that hasn't been much in the last 5 years. I don't buy scratch offs etc. But even if we won we know exactly what we would do. We have our dream plan if we had the money. I can tell you there would be top of the line care for homeless people. Whether it be drug treatment, mental health or just plain old medical care. Fully paid for. There would be families who didn't have to worry about groceries who live on that line of barely making it and not qualifying for services. The list is heck of a long list of things we would do. I'd love to find families struggling and pay off their Christmas Lay Away. Yes it would be amazing. I'd love to support missionaries around the world and fund church plants. I could go on and on. That being said, we know that those dreams, although great would probably never happen but it is nice to dream of making a difference.
What I see on TV is more and more of our youth of all colors and creeds choosing a life of drugs, drug dealing, gang banging and robbing. I see more people saying you can have your own opinion as long as it agrees with mine. I see people putting people like the Kardashians on a pedestal when they have done nothing to help society. A sex tape doesn't help society and neither does surgery to change who you are. I'm tired of people looking down on single parents and not being mad as heck at the other parent who walked away and didn't help that family they left behind. Im' tired of seeing people being hateful towards each other and calling each other names that have nothing to do with who that person is. Why is this happening and why are we ok with it. Why is the Whitehouse hosting Muslim prayers but deciding to no lnoger host other prayer groups to pray on property? Why are the Muslim tenants being taught in schools where they are not allowed to teach about Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism etc. Why are some groups being given carte blanche to do or say whatever they want even including the pain and hurt to others.
Recently, a major news group said that when Trump says we need to put America First, its Nazism. How is that? Why aren't we taking care of our own hungry, our own homeless? I get it we have always helped other people, but we have never been this much in crisis in our country before and we have to stop and fix us before we can fix anyone else. Mexico says it is not ok for us to build a wall, however, they do have wall built between themselves and Guatemala to delay people coming into their country and they have some of the strictest immigration laws in the world. But if we enforce ours we are bullies. I just don't get it. Its about stopping the bleeding in our country. I can tell you right now, I know a few people who if given the option of working on a farm gathering fruit and that would include a free place to stay and a stipend of money weekly they would jump on the chance. There are lots of people who are homeless because even though they work hard, they can't afford to live where they are. What if they had that opportunity. Put them on buses and relocate them to the job and tada workforce created where supposedly there isn't one. There are ways to fix some of the issues here, there are ways to help our vets, our homeless, our mentally ill etc. And spending our money helping other countries may not be the right answer right now. Maybe we need to pull back for a time to fix things. Kind of like when you get a divorce. You have to work on you and get good with you before you will be any good to anyone else.
I don't know who I will vote for. I am not claiming to be on anyone's side but I don't think someone saying we need to fix our country sees the problems. Someone saying there is nothing to fix we rock....is blind as a bat.
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