When society breaks down

I assert that we are at the breaking point of our current social structure. Listen, and one can see the hate and vitriol been spawn from the media. Look around at the protests and gatherings that are becoming more violent. Check the hate on social media (even if the moderators see the hate in a biased way). 

Families, friends, and co-workers try to maintain civility, but it's an uneasy peace and a shaky truce. Churches are divided internally and externally. Secular organizations maintain an unstated ceasefire, but it is only a comment away from being fractured. 

One can walk into a public space and see the divide between the masked and unmasked as they glare at each other. That is, if you live in a place without a mandate. But, if masks are mandated, the hostility gets suppressed and it seethes under the surface. 

Bumper stickers expressing viewpoints can often lead to folks flipping the bird or honking and gesturing at the offending driver. Likewise, neighborhood yard signs that state political or religious views are often the source of fights, displays of rage and anger, and sometimes vandalism.

The fabric that is holding society together is stretched to the tearing point. It may not take much before things decline into civil war or chaos. 

Then anarchy becomes the dictatorship and tyranny of the strongest survivor to reclaim some sense of order before everyone is destroyed. 

The breakdown is inevitable and is just a matter of time. 

God Wins!

When we read the last headline on the last day of human history, it will read "God Wins!" I believe this not because I feel it: not because science tells me. I believe this because God has told us in His Word to us. 

No matter what side of escatology you come down to, it all ends with a big "W" for God. So let's occupy until He comes. We need to stay on mission, preach the gospel, and love our fellow believers. We are called to give a good testimony to those outside the church. We are to give of our time and life to pay it forward. A man is no fool who gives away that which he cannot keep and invests it in a place where he can't lose. 

So, then if God wins in the end, all I can say is (only boomers get this): Mad Mag's prophet Alfred E. Neuman  "What me worry?"

Do you think Jesus will spike the football? 

New stages

I turned 70 on Sunday. Wow! I remember as a kid listening to the song "Old Friends" by Simon and Garfunkle, the poignant words struck me, "how strange it must be to be seventy". Well, I am there now.

I feel great. I hit the gym a couple of times a week. I have some askes and pains but nothing major. My body takes a lot longer to heal when I do strain a muscle but I expected that, My mind is pretty sharp. I do daily brain game exercises that work different parts of the brain. 

I try to learn new skills every day. I am learning to touch type and reading regularly, to name a few. 

Now, is a time to make a final lap around the track. I want to finish the race strong. I pray like Apostle Paul.

II Timothy 4:6-8 NKJV

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

I want to finish strong and engaged in the fight. It looks like I am at the right stage of history to be in a fight.