The Better Part, week #36

 

This week's FB posts:

The Better Part, Day #188:

 

 

Sometimes, you spend a lot of time encouraging others, Reminding them of God's love and provision, and most important, His promises. And then you sit back... and you see the world the way Satan wants it seen: The unbelief... the hatred evidenced by those who have to couple each opinion with an insult... the natural disasters that knock so many off their feet... It can be too much. Then you go out, the Lord by your side, and look in the sky at sunset to see those way off, wispy clouds, and beyond them, the hand that created them... and you realize you are still in those hands, and the promises still hold.

 

 

 

 

The Better Part, Day #189:

 

This post is going back to the reasons I started doing this. I've been reading a book about the current "post-truth": culture we live in and how the author believes we Got there. The author IS a pastor, and I agree with what he's saying, BUT...

 

In his reasoning, he identifies five "forces" that are moving today's world, and I am in the chapter about "ideologies are at war". In this chapter he is spending a lot of time on how the younger generation is being taught to prefer socialism over capitalism. As I'm not trying to do a book review here, I am going to skip to the "but". He spends almost the entirety of the chapter bemoaning socialism, but one small paragraph on the thought that" Capitalism did itself little good in the rampant greed of the 80's and 90's".

 

Here's what I don't think he focuses on enough: Both economic systems are based on FALLEN humanity. Satan had Marx et al remove God from socialism because he needed a flaw in a "more fair" system; in capitalism, pride and greed do the same job without it being written into ideology. It is useless, and less than useless, to coat the Cross in dollars, just as it is to drape it in the flag. Preachers, preach Jesus, not economics! Preachers, preach Jesus, not politics! That is the Better Part.

 

 

 

The Better Part, Day #190:

 

Another thought that sprang from the book I mentioned yesterday: Liberal teachers and preachers try to tell us that 'truth is relative' and "whatever works for you is your truth". Think on this, though: Our universe is built on precise, scientifically discovered and measured laws. The only place in this universe where they break down (other than the minds of these people) are in a black hole- where the life, the light, the existence is squeezed out of everything that falls in it. There IS absolute truth, the universe itself teaches us that.