INVERTING RIGHT AND WRONG

I know it's been quite a while since my last post.  I've been extremely busy taking care of family - vacations, projects, and many other things.  I've also been helping our church with our Vacation Bible School - by leading it.  I am Bi-vocational - at least I have another part-time job as well to supplement our income - and have also been busy during "down-times" with that.  I'm back today, taking time out of other needed things to post this.  I only hope it makes someone think about their position.  Nevertheless, things have gotten to the point that I need to "vent" on some things, and so I must post this - As I See It.

Morality in America is inverted, and it has been for quite some time.  People are posting the craziest things on Facebook, the MSM (Main Stream Media) reports from the most inverted value system I've ever seen, and our governmental leaders are more out of touch with reality than ever before.  Today, I just want to publish a bullet list of these inversions.

• A marine defends himself and others under fire by returning fire on a Muslim extremist seeking to kill them.  He is under investigation and threatened with imprisonment for firing a weapon on a military installation. He is a field grade officer charged with leading and caring for his men and women.
• A protected lion is killed and the world wants his killer caught, extradited, and punished while an entire business is thriving based on the murder, dismemberment, and sale of body parts is protected by MSM and liberal congressional representatives.
• The police are encouraged and honored for their "undercover sting operations" against organized crime mobs, drug rings, etc., while a citizen's group is denigrated as "biased" for conducting its own "undercover sting operation" revealing indisputable proof that criminal conduct is taking place daily in a taxpayer-funded business that sells baby body parts for profit.  
• Police officers who, in the line of duty, have to physically take down a criminal that will not submit are considered racist if the criminal is black and the cop is white.  
• Police officers who, in the line of duty, must use deadly force to apprehend a criminal that is black, are called "killer cops," while nothing is said in the MSM when a "cop killer" uses deadly force to resist apprehension.
• License and Liberty are now synonymous, meaning that freedom (liberty) guaranteed by the Constitution offers complete legal, social, and governmental protection to all who seek an immoral lifestyle (license) regardless of who it may offend, and that protection will include the removal of all who protest for any reason.  This is done through the IRS, FBI, MSM, SCOTUS, POTUS, HSA, BATF, and politically correct liberal professors throughout our land.  
• Criminals have guns, politicos have people with guns to protect them from criminals, and citizens may not defend themselves from neither - the criminal or the overpowering politico.

And the list goes on.  Those in favor of these inversions are also in favor of these perversions.  Our very nation's foundation, the Constitution, is threatened by the ideologies that are behind these inversions.  That, in itself, is the most dangerous of inversions today, with one exception.

• The Bible-believing Christian is now considered as dangerous to our nation as a Muslim Extremist, if not more so - a belief held by those who support the inversions mentioned above.  Why?
• Because the Bible-believer has a moral foundation not found in the immoral, godless, inverted beliefs of others.
• Because the Bible-believer will vote and stand for right and wrong, constitutionally based policies, and demand justice in the case of these inversions.  This threatens the agenda of these liberal, godless, immoral power-hungry people.
• Because the Bible-believer offers a real remedy through peaceful means as the gospel demands.  This is effective beyond the wildest imaginations of the power-hungry, immoral liberals.  Therefore, they must be ostracized, outlawed, and outcast before they actually can influence the masses under the control and sway of the liberal MSM, politicos, and educators.

Ronald Regan's Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork, is quoted as saying, "A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."  He has hit the nail on the head, and explains what is happening in America today.  He also hints at the answer.

I was asked the other day what I thought was wrong with America.  I was asked by someone who is very conservative - but NOT a Bible-believer.  My answer was simple: We have removed God from the American Marketplace.  Too many people no longer trust the Bible, God, or Jesus Christ.  Instead, each does what is right in his own eyes, thinking that freedom is license to serve self at all costs.  But God says, "Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34 (NKJV)  If we will not acknowledge the righteousness set forth by God, we will become a nation that sins in the sight of God - and we will be come a reproach to all people.  That is why "our enemies no longer fear us and our friends no longer trust us."  We have left the God who has blessed us, and we expect Him to continue to bless us for leaving Him.  "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" (Psalms 14:1; 53:1).  

Because America has inverted its allegiance to the One True God and Savior of Mankind, America can no longer help but invert its understanding of right and wrong.  Each person will do what is right in his own eyes, having no understanding of the consequences.  Unless we return to the foundation of justice, mercy, Truth, and eternity found in the Bible, we will only drift further from sanity.  That's America As I See It.

FACING THE "REAL" ISSUES OF LIFE

I know plenty of people who find studies and surveys and polls to be a bit dry and unhelpful.  But there’s one that just came out which should make us stop and think (I tend to say that pretty often, though).  OneNewsNow.com reported this morning on a poll by LifeWay research which indicated that Christian media (news outlets, commentaries, books, etc.) don’t reach much more than those already deeply committed to their Christian faith.  Why?  They say that Christian media is not addressing the real issues everyday Americans face and are concerned with. (See Lesson for Christian media: Deal with everyday issues, OneNewsNow.com, Monday, March 2, 2015)

While this report may be somewhat helpful, it causes my mind to travel places that perhaps you might think a bit “out of left field.”  I sometimes wonder if the issues that “everyday Americans” think about and worry about are really what is wrong, not the issues addressed in Christian media.  There are several reasons I think that.

1. The Christian World-view puts priorities on different things than the Secular World-view does.  Spiritual matters are supremely important – matters of relationship between God and Man – to those living by a Christian World-view.  Secular world-views put the material in the foreground.  Creature comforts, empowerment, environment, and the economy are center-stage for the secularists.  Of course, I’m not even mentioning the world-views of other religions; but they tend to emulate the Christian world-view while arguing with the tenants and truths of the Bible.  For that reason, they are not interested in what is important to the Christian. 
2. Because worldviews matter, Christians are being marginalized.  I believe this crosses into the marginalization of the Christian media.  The media-moguls (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN) are all coming from a secular world-view.  They are also viewing conservative and Christian media as competition for viewership – and so they have begun to slander them with vitriolic character assassinations and public disrespect.  This is a “news-media” example of the secular portion of society putting pressure on Christians.  It is happening in many corners of society, not just in the news media circles. 
3. The frustrations that many “Non-Christians” have is likely because of misplaced priorities.  While many might think this to be a world-view issue, it might be that there really IS a thing called TRUTH!  Misplaced priorities might be like trying to put a square peg in a round hole.  In this case, I’m talking about people trying to change the way things and life is intended to work.  Marriage was not intended for the perversions being embraced today.  Financial matters were never supposed to leave people over their heads in debt.  Life is to be respected, not devalued (as abortion and euthanasia proponents would have us believe).  These are just a few examples of how our society has suffered grave consequences over misplaced priorities.  It might be that the non-Christians just want to think about and live by lies about how things work, and avoid the cause-effect realities in their world.  Why?  Because they simply cannot accept the TRUTH about things. 

Maybe, the problem is not Christian media’s attention to certain things; it could be that the problem is the world is focused on the wrong things! 

That’s life “As-I-See-It” today!

I would love to hear how YOU See It!  Comment below.