Exothermic

     I had a great “chat-versation” with a friend of mine now living somewhere in the snow-covered landscape of Boston, Massachusetts. He is a good guy with a great mind, though not commensurate to his size (LOL! Peace brotha). Somewhere along the conversation we discussed about the frailty of man and the genius of satan. I said “…know what, satan is really clever”. He replied, “But God is wiser…” My reply was, “Sure He is, but we aren’t”.

Later, it dawn on me the things that are happening around that big country my friend is now calling home. Looking back at history, America was founded with strong foundation on Christian faith and the best example to that is printed on their money: In God we trust. Anyone familiar with the history of the United States would attest that this country was founded with God in mind. But look how things have changed. Being the leader of the democratic world, there strength is the freedom of its citizen. This is also where satan puts his penny in. Isn’t that freedom causes the fist man to sin against God? The freedom to choose what you want can be a double-edged sword. Satan is the master of deception and by encouraging us to take advantage of this free will has been his effective and most clandestine strategy to trap us once again. Notice what is happening to the US right now, there has been an increasing number of lawsuits just to get rid of anything that resembles Christianity may it be murals, monument, or even that word printed on their money. Parents have been suing schools because according to them their children were forced to say prayers or that something in the school has got to do with Christianity or God which is against the constitution. We’ve heard people protesting so that a very old monument of the 10 Commandments will be removed from a federal building because it is against their constitutional rights of religious freedom. Consequently, they won the legal battle, nothing can prevent them anyway, they are constitutionally right. Now, almost everything in the Government that can be related to Christianity and God is being challenged not just in the US but also in other free countries.

Man has really made his God given intelligence and freedom far beyond what is required of him and satan can’t be more ready to exploit it. We have achieved great intelligence and desired for utmost freedom and then declared this as our strength. Foolishness! Our greatest human strength is our perfect weakness; a total opposite to what was declared by Jesus in II Cor. 12:9 9 …, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” Of course we need to use this strengths because after all God gave it to us at our disposal. But when can we say enough is enough? I guess some of us will never know when to stop and will never know that they have been used by satan against his battle with God. Satan has been patiently waiting on the roadside watching as we follow Christ along the narrow and difficult road. But when we fall on the curb he is very quick and clever to lead us to a broader road that leads to destruction. Mind you he is a good leader and many follows him.

Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:16-18 “ I thought to myself, “Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge. Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.” If this was what the great King had concluded, what can we expect is for us?

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.  ~Louis D. Brandeis