SCRIP-BITS

Oh Friends, I wasn’t even planning to mention any of the negative occurrences that have happened in our world this past week, but after the Spirit led me to our Bit, I realized I had to say something about them because they are all things we should enlighten our children on. And to name just a few of our world problems; let’s start with the political unrest and violence in Haiti due to perceived corrupt and unfair elections. Then look at the students rioting in staid Britain, London in particular, because their school fees have been tripled by the new coalition government preaching severe cutbacks of pensions and benefits, but also drastic increases in taxes and other fees. Closer to home, in Ontario, we’re still investigating police brutality from the G20 Conference, and the secretly passed, illegal and possibly unconstitutional law to give police unnatural powers of arrest during the conference. We’re also dealing with normal, everyday police brutality in Ottawa, the nation’s capital, where their Chief has promised to resign. But not so ours in Toronto, who oversaw a rash of police brutality and innocent arrest and detentions during the catastrophic G20 time. He’s only been hemming and hawing about lack of identification of the rogue cops. But he’s finally been given some faces and names. Let’s see what he’ll do about it now. Why are our leaders nowadays so stupid eh mih people? Police relations with the public were already bad enough before that G20 fiasco, then you try to sweep it under the carpet. What do you think the public perception is going to be now eh? And moving from one abuse of power to another, we come to China’s pettiness, re the Nobel Peace Prize for one of their jailed dissidents. They’ve been flexing their muscles, threatening severe repercussions to any countries that send representatives to the ceremony in Norway. Steups! Another autocratic government wanting to dominate other people’s lives, but won’t tolerate any outside interference in theirs. What else is new though? Oh, then we have the friends of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, hacking into the Internet workings of major players like MasterCard and Pay Pal, because they stopped collecting donations for WikiLeaks. They don’t want the Net to be controlled by anybody or any corporation, but sadly they don’t seem to understand that if it’s not controlled to some extent, we’ll all suffer for it eventually. We’re all so caught up in the freedom thing that we fail to realize that sensible freedom is only possible when there are controls, else we’d all be running amok. We won’t even mention the terrible weather in many parts of Europe, or their sad economic plight, or the continuing wars and tension in the Middle East, or the escalating tension between North and South Korea. And what about the foolish Australian politico, who claims that Assange is not to blame for the WikiLeaks disclosures, but the poor security of the U.S and the person, assumed to be an American citizen, who stole the information. Oh Friends, in this great world of ours today, everybody wants to do their own thing their way, but sadly nobody wants to accept blame for it when it pans out badly. And just as Joel warned the Israelites to: ‘Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation,’ referring to the locust plague that devastated Judah, we must also teach our children about the stupidity and ignorance of hatred and anger, war and strife, and worst of all, separation from the Holy God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Oh my people, we all know that much of our disaster filled world is directly due to our turning away from the Most High God Jehovah, as the twin states of Judah and Israel did in their early years and were severely punished for their disobedience. They refused to listen to several warnings from several prophets sent to them by the Lord. And don’t be surprised Friends, for we’re doing the same thing. It seems that when prosperity set’s in, we get a li’l too cock-sure and overconfident, thinking that it’s been all our doing, foolishly and /or conveniently forgetting the grace, mercy, forgiveness and LOVE of our God, without which we cannot function. Oh Friends, it’s our bounden duty to not only teach our progeny the good ways of life as opposed to the bad, but also to live those good ways; show them a godly example. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as though we’ve done such a good job, for a rather large number of our young people are wrongly, but enthusiastically flocking to the worldly things and fleshly lusts of Lucifer’s evil world. That should give us all great cause for concern, for as I keep saying, if this is the state of our world now, what will become of it two generations hence? Oh Friends, there’s nothing more to be said, because we all know our responsibilities, and it’s obvious that we have not been good stewards of all that the Lord has entrusted us with. So we’ll close with some encouraging words from a contemplation of Asaph, Psalm 78; A reminder of God’s goodness to Israel, and also to us, in these crazy, tumultuous times. ‘Give ear (listen), O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old (speak obscure sayings or riddles): Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright (did not prepare its heart), and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.’ (Ps.78:1-8) My people, it’s not too late to turn the tide. But we have to be very serious about it and begin NOW, for who knows how long we have before the whole thing blows up in our faces. With the Lord’s help we can certainly do it, so let’s repent, ask for His help and get on it right away nuh! Much LOVE!…the children are our future…so let’s teach them right…let’s teach them to pray…