HALF EMPTY

By Rick Mathes

Romans 2:6 (NASB77) ⁶ who will render to every man according to his deeds:

Worldview and attitude determine much of one’s lifestyle and Christian walk. So many professing brethren automatically respond to problems or challenges with reasons why it won’t work or can’t be done. The gears shift to neutral or reverse with little effort. This mindset permeates every strata of society from the top down.

Take for instance our Constitution. The court battles are in the arena of restrictions not opportunities. And as a result, our liberties are cannibalized to feed the void in liberal and permissive society until it can be said with some honesty, the constitution is old and obsolete. Why? The courts have rewritten it with “what we can’t do” instead of what our founders wanted us to do.

How about what passes for church? The attempt to organize an organism fails times and again because man won’t let go of what belongs to the Holy Spirit. We make rules and rituals while we choke on our own vomit of self-gratification. And all the while, the shepherd shakes in his boots for fear of violating the do’s and don’ts the sheep have demanded of him. This then leads to violating the gospel that now “contains the Word of God” when it suits the restrictions of religion that was birthed in the bowls of Hell.

Let’s not forget the family unit. Can you believe that we need to define it as a male father, female mothers and heterosexual children? Where have the boundaries of the gospel gone? Demons dictate from the pulpits, seats of government and at the head of the dinner table relativity instead of objectivity. What is right to you who are in power means more than what is right to me from the Lord’s own words.

So right is wrong and wrong is right and we are in a desperate situation which is clearly half-empty and hopeless. Let’s just throw in the towl and let others define our world, church and family. It’s much easier this way.

Or we can stand up for the truth and let all know that the glass is half full and we are going to fill it up to the top, so help us God. And He will!