Faith in The Light in a World of Storms

I don't even know where to start, and I better make it quick cuz I'm so not well. I need OFF this hormone cycle from hell.

No, I need off this planet that's dead-set & determined to go there...

There was a day not too long ago when we didn't have fancy crystal balls that gave opportunities to see inside the womb. God was a much bigger part of our culture then. Have you noticed that the more technology our society achieves, the more godless we bcome... Yet how can we make appropriate moral decisions without God as our foundation? To be certain, mankind is flailing in the dark without the using of God as our navigational Beacon.

I don't know what's happened to our culture this last generation or so, but we've all but thrown God completely out of the picture.

We've taken creation away from Him and entrusted life's explanation to some mid-19th century athiest who quite frankly, has done no better job of explaining life than Moses did.

We've taken moral Law away from Him and gone off on our own tangent of rules & ethics--ideals that sway with the ever-changing winds of contemporary times & modern technology. Even many who claim to worship God often sway with the cultural times, and lord how they cling to their secular worldview like chewed gum stuck under the pews they occupy.

I'm reminded of serveral of my beloved Old Testament prophets who were equally frustrated with their cultural deteriorization. We're a comfort-seeking nation. We're a generation that doesn't know squat about sacrifice or principles--and we definitely don't know anything about sacrificing for principles. The bumpter sticker is right when it proclaims that, Mean People Suck!

The problem is that more & more people are getting more & more mean as we throw God off to the side as some insignificant idea. Our whole culture has adopted this attitude whereby we think we don't need God in our lives unless He's handing out lotto money or catering to our vacation agenda. To many, God is only allowed to exist if He's going to serve us and bless--gimme gimme gimme.

But what about serving God? What about being a blessing to God? He gives us our lives so that we can give them back to Him. What part of selfish egotist have we not understood as we look in the cultural mirror?

I just want to say that the magicians of modern medicine are NOT all knowing--even their most accurate tests & predictions are often wrong. And they have absolutely ZERO means or methods by which to measure or determine intrauterine suffering. All across this nation, women kill their children daily based on an erroneous assumption that their child may be suffering in utero.

They NEVER stop to consider that the only comfort their baby may ever know in this life is in the warmth of their mother's womb napping to the sound of his/her mother's loving heartbeat.

And yet somehow her drs have convinced her that to rob her child of those brief & precious moments is "better." And Goodness knows that neither the mother nor her doctors ever take time to consider the suffering the child will absolutely endure as it's life is artificially snuffed out apart from God's timing.

And they certainly never stop to consider the very real possibility that the drs are just plain wrong. It's just so disturbing that no one has faith in miracles or God's comfort anymore--all their faith is in technology and the so-called "facts" it produces...

I watched that Bob Woodruff special last night--I was mortified by the fact that an entire team of top notch specialists never once believed he could live, let alone recover. His poor wife had to swim upstream, fighting their medical doom every step of the way. And yet, how wrong those "specialists" were. It distresses me beyond distress that we hand those overpaid, over worshipped magicians all our hope & faith. And in their position of authority, it is their aim for us to put our faith in them--so much so, that we end up having more faith in them than God. And yet what a crappy trade off.

I've heard countless women say they terminated their child's lives because they didn't want him/her to suffer under the plight of diagnoses & prognoses that their drs gave them--how noble. I suppose those countless evil mothers of generations gone-by are to be condemned for torturing their babies who didn't have benefit of prenatal technology or termination. I'll bet Bob Woodruff is glad his wife didn't do the same to him as she faced the impending gloom & doom of his recovery head on.

I'm just completely nauseated by this "pull the plug" idealogy our culture has fallen into--the godlessness that it reflects... truly I am like the weeping prophet, Jeremiah...