And addressing more
on certain powerful people emanating from different strata of society. It is almost unconscionable to learn what they
would go through to publicly lie about or misrepresent what they say and do. All in the name of hate and the underlying grab
for power. The angry anarchists both in
power and on the streets! Both those
nicely dressed and suited and those masked rioters creating mayhem in the
streets.
And so rather than
being reticent when not being able to say anything good, the reverse becomes
the truism. Not to miss any opportunity to
denigrate anybody you loathe, in dogged pursuit of an agenda tightly couched in
the quest for power and influence.
The art of language,
communication, and conversation has been thrown to the dogs. It has been subtly
subverted – to revile people, to mislead people, and yes, to taint the very air
we breathe. And we are all the worse for
it. So how many otherwise gentle people
now hate because they have been fed with false narratives? The developing formless blob has evolved into
the mob. So how different is it now compared
to the darkening times of Christ, when otherwise gentle people were transformed
into an angry and cruel mob?
God help us.
If we are
believers of biblical accounts, we know that during similar godless times, God
was disposed to bring wholesale catastrophe to our lot. But he did promise with the advent of Christ
that He had relented in the use of such extreme measures.
What then can we
expect?
The reflex or
default act of many has been a loud call to prayer.
But I say that
many do pray, but they still miss the essential meaning and power of prayer.
One prays for
resolution of vicissitudes because everything is dependent on God. But the more important part of prayer is to
act on those resolutions like everything was dependent on us. Our salvation then is in us, measured in our
actions under the proper guidance of Christ.