Not Going That Way

 

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 It is easy to get distracted by the direction the World is going and not focus enough on where you are going. The World celebrates sin and death and will be doing that much, much more. But I'm not going that way.

People have been being evil from time beyond reckoning. 2000 years ago Jesus said "people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil." Nothing has changed, nothing will change, but the way it manifests changes.

Tyrants in olden days could be really evil in very large demonstrative ways. Nero lighting his garden party with burning Christians, for example. But as an instrument of Satanic dominion over Planet Earth, they were very limited. They acted to please their own evil desires, but beyond that, they didn't do all that much for their evil Mack Daddy in the red tux and tails. Of course, most people following their evil natures anyway, so yeah, I would assume the Evil One wasn't that displeased. But it all could be so much, much more. It could be optimized.

What's different now? World spanning cultural media that celebrates sin. A functionally united soft-totalitarian Woke Regime spanning the Western World that also serves the same purposes and spreads that ideology of sin, sometimes by force. A Woke secular education system that gets kids started out the wrong way. A populace demoralized and destroyed by consumerism and decadence and a society that treats them like a commodity. 150,000 drug deaths in America in 2023, and 50,000 suicides, the most suicides on record. These people died of spiritual disease, because they lost heart and lost the reason to live. Too much of the Devil's world killed them.

Satan's government of the Earth is just way more effective now, and will continue to be more and more effective. We ain't seen nuthin yet. People imagine they can reverse it, but they can't. No doubt the election of Kamala Harris will be an epic disaster, one I consider fairly likely, but Trump getting elected would only be a speed bump in the way of the onward march of Satan's kingdom. Assuming it is that.

But I don't want to dwell on that too much now. Yes, our ancestors only 50 years ago would be absolutely appalled that most of the Western world has government censorship, and that the US Government has been doing its very best to join the party. There are more things to be grim about than I have time to tell about. But that's not what this post is actually about.

I'm not going that way, and you don't have to either. I am not going to cooperate or participate in it. The Lord is merciful, quick to forgive sincere repentance. If we constantly have our eyes on the World...

...and to be sure it is a freaking train wreck...

 ...then we will not be having our eyes on the blessings and peace we can receive from the Lord. I know, it's hard not to look at that 45 car high speed pileup on the highway with dozens dead and injured. Actually a 45 car high speed pileup is a triviality compared to what is actually going on, but that's just an example of a rubbernecking opportunity. And it is tempting to rubberneck, and I do it all the time (world news, not actual wrecks,) but it is unproductive and unbecoming to do it. It is easy to feel oppressed once you realize how things actually are.

Ya the world is going to hell, and the world and hell have the same boss. But I don't want to go that way. That's not my boss. Grace and peace can be yours. Spend some time going that way, not rubbernecking at all the people going the other way. I am telling this to myself as much as anybody, to be clear.

Grace and peace be yours in the Lord. May the Lord bless you and keep you, may He make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord turn His face towards you and give you peace.