Throughout history gold has been a highly-valued commodity. During the Gold Rush, many people left everything...homes. families, some devoting their entire lives to the pursuit of it. God is a treasure far more precious than all the wealth on Earth, but unlike gold, He is not hard to find. He truly is a God who shows Himself. His truths are richly woven into the fabric of all creation. Our greatest insight into the very heart and mind are the Scriptures, but to find the real treasure, we must dig deep into the remote recesses of the Rock himself. One thing you will most certainly discover is the deeper you dig, the deeper He gets. In all eternity we will never be able to plumb the depths of God. It is my hope that perhaps through my own search for that 'Treasure above all Treasures' you will find something which will have some meaning for you. R.Whelan

Sunday, April 18, 2010

LOOKING-GLASS LOGIC

Do you ever feel like your name is Alice and that you fell down a rabbit hole and woke up in a place called Wonderland? I feel that way more every day. It’s as though I went to sleep one night and woke up in a world I don’t recognize, a world that no longer makes any sense. Everything is turned backwards and upside down, any which way but right, where the inmates are running the asylum.

I live in a world that will put you in jail for correcting your child, but encourages you to kill it before it’s born . . . that says you can’t control a child’s sexual behavior, but thinks you can control their drinking, smoking, etc. A world that wants to ban cigarette smoking and legalize smoking marijuana . . . that encourages sexual promiscuity, then wonders why we’re dying from sexually transmitted diseases.

I live in a world where you can't kill someone with a gun, but you can starve them to death with a courts permission . . . that encourages people to think only of themselves, then wonders why people are so selfish. A world that rewards people for not working and punishes people who work with confiscatory taxes. A world that calls those who seek the destruction of others freedom fighters and those who seek to protect themselves terrorists.

I live in a world where a country will fight to secure another country’s borders, but says there’s nothing it can do to secure its own . . . where governments claim there’s no such thing as God, then try to become one themselves. A world where schools encourage the parents to get involved in their children's education, then tell them not to interfere with what their children are being taught.

I live in a world where scientists say we can’t fix the Earth’s environment, but claim we can make Mars habitable. A world that spends millions on space exploration, stadiums, gambling and more, but says it doesn’t have enough resources to feed the poor . . . where people will throw perfectly good food in the garbage, then ask for money to feed the starving masses.

I live in a world where ministers don’t believe in God . . . where politicians write laws, complain about the laws they’ve written, want more laws, but won’t enforce the ones they have. A world where politicians claim they have no power, that they don’t know how the country ended up in such a mess, and act as though they’re not really sure where the bad laws came from in the first place, perhaps it was just another big bang, or maybe the laws just crawled up out of some primordial ooze.

I live in a world that can look at pictures from the outer edges of the universe, but can’t see the forest for the trees . . . a world that calls good evil and evil good. Move over Alice.

And professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Rom: 1:22 © 1999 Rachel Whelan