Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming…

I found this exceedingly humorous as I opened the Drudge Report this morning. Maybe God’s trying to get a point across…

Every weekday, from 12:30 to 1:00 in the afternoon, Mother and I take our lunch break and watch a rerun of I Love Lucy. When I was younger I remember the hilarious situations that she would find herself in. Yet I had not watched the shows continuously for maybe five or six years until we put up an antenna for the 2008 Olympics. Over a few episodes we concluded to our long standing love for Lucy had been broken.

As I grew older and more wise, I realized that Lucy was sneaky, manipulative, conniving, dishonest, prideful, jealous, disrespectful,  disobedient to Ricky, etc. What I am striving to be, she is not. Of course Lucy loves Ricky but love needs respect, and that she too shows until it begins to interfere with her bizarre wants.

Every week she plans something behind Ricky’s back, whilst manipulating Ethel to do her red headed work with her. She constantly whines when she does not receive her wants (like a part in a show) and often uses comedy to let her disobedience to her husband slide gently through. Of course I love Lucy is still a fun show with many whacky adventures, but I need to realize that Lucy is not a Biblical example of a  wife.

So, do I love Lucy? I’m more of an Andy Griffith gal:)

Truthfully, many Christian families are slowly allowing blasphemy, violence, sexual immorality, and perverseness into their homes. They have their children exposed to such evil ideas and images constantly. Television is just one of the things that man developed which Satan has used for spreading temptation amongst the people, Christians and the unsaved.

When I was around 9, and still in public school, my parents decided to rid our house of television. We rented movies, and videos.  The other children had television and would talk about their favourite shows and such, and yet I didn’t feel jealous, for one can really go without television in their lives. I even used most of my persuasive essays that they assigned us to advocate for the “removal of television from the student body“. I had better things to do at home; read, be with my family, go outside, etc.

And then, the 2008 Olympics came, and we put a little antennae in the attic to be able to watch them so we wouldn’t bombard our family members about taping them. I enjoyed being able to watch the sporting events at the touch of a button. However, the next day I found a whole new world in game shows. I watched my first Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. But at around 5 o clock….the world that we had blocked out came flooding back in again. Caution was taken. Since we could only get around six or seven channels, we were able to limit our intake of television. We watched a few shows in the evenings for about a week, (muting the commercials) and we thought “This isn’t so bad“. Then we noticed that the world hooks people into the routine of watching and then will not let them go. The shows and commercials rushed downhill into flames.

I feel sorry for families and people who are in the hooks of television and can’t seem to set themselves free. However, having television doesn’t mean that you are unable to free yourself from it, for we still have those six channels. But we are cautious and conscious about what we are watching. What we watch, we watch together to keep ourselves accountable.

Many of us know that Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign was marked as eloquent and steady from the beginning. He was a good speaker, and was a crowd winner by his smooth words and ideas of change.

These past days Americans flooded to choose their candidate that would lead them through this crisis; the war in Iraq, the stock market, hundreds of jobs being lost, unborn children being deprived of life for the sake of someone who does not want them, and now Barrack Hussein Obama will come to office, and will help determine this country’s future as he sees fit.

As Christians, this candidate will seem scary because of his politics and ideas about morality, and sometimes we will be tempted to break down and cry about what might happen- I know I have wanted to. But sometimes our fear of what might become, keeps us from hearing what God said he would do. God did not leave us in a lurch about the future- He wrote it out  in His word, and gives us the Holy Spirit and peace to see us through. I get nervous about my future in this country, but somehow I don’t get too excited because in the midst of my trifling fears, God is always  whispering that His plan is coming to pass, and what man uses for evil, God will use for good.

This is the time in this country that we will have to work, like the persecuted Christians in Acts, harder to see God’s kingdom come. Instead of assuming that our nation still depends on God, we will have to walk straight out of our comfort zone to witness, and be persecuted for Christ. We will have to go against evil to see people’s eyes light up at hearing the name of Jesus. I would rather see my Christian walk grow, than sit at home waiting for the outcome of what will happen.