March 2nd, 2022: Time for a Change

 


It was almost two years ago that I started this blog. It was after being away for five years. I got convicted out of my prayer time in Montreal in March 2020, right after the pandemic began. I will start another blog sometime this week as the pandemic has become endemic. What have I learned during the past two years?


a) We don't have many good leaders in the world.

b) We can be easily manipulated by both social media and conventional media

c) We have become divisive because of fear

d) We don't trust any form of authority

e) We see many unjust treatments of people and businesses in the name of the pandemic

f) We need leaders who can be pastors to their nations

g) We witness the lack of wisdom in many levels of governments

h) We don't see any meaningful voice from the church

i) We have overlooked other forms of human suffering while talking about the pandemic

j) We don't need celebrities who pretend to be there for the poor

k) We see God's revelations in dealing with damaging sexual abuse of children and powerless people

l) We have allowed the far left to hijack political, social, spiritual, environmental, and economic agenda

m) We have allowed our moral compass disrupted by more immorally enticing magnetic fields


Life will be more complicated from now on. We cannot say what we think. We cannot do what we believe is right, run a business without government interference, give our money according to our conviction. We cannot raise our kids according to our own moral values. People in power abuse others sexually, emotionally, and economically. We have allowed celebrities to be our high priests concerning moral and spiritual conversations.


If these are our ideas of progress, it is progressing according to our depraved minds and broken spirits. There is another pandemic happening, and no one cares about it. It is the one that will destroy everything good about humanity. It is not subtle. It is in our face wherever we go and whatever we watch.


Psalm 86: 11

"Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name."


Proverbs 4: 25-26

"Let your eyes look straight ahead;

 fix your gaze directly before you.

Give careful thought to the paths for your feet

 and be steadfast in all your ways."

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