This is a post I first wrote in 2010. It is still true today.
The Good News
Amid the chaos and noise of world events, fear mongers or, as they like
to be called "news media," fan the flames of manic thinking. Once upon a
time, not so very long ago, I made appoint to watch the world and local
news everyday. I wanted to be an informed responsible adult capable of
voting on important issue concerning our country. I care about world
events and people groups. Knowledge is power and I had the power to pray
over issues in much need of prayer when and only when I had knowledge
of them. This was my thinking. I wised up.
You see, for every slanted news story, there is pertinent information we
are not being given. We are told our economic health in American is
terminally ill. World politics is in such mucky water the
powers/countries that be suffer from chronic dysentery. Do not even get
me started on information we receive daily on which celebrity idiot is
doing what now. Do I care what someone wore to a specific event? Does it
play a part in my big picture? No, yet we are blasted with information
about whose shoes are under whose bed and what their political point of
view is at that moment.
Our financial outlook could change if athletes, mega-millionaires, and
movie stars weren't given sinful amounts of money to do what they love
to do in the first place. You can feed a lot of hungry kids on 15
million dollars, yet actors and the other $$ prostitutes are demanding
and getting that kind of money all the time. Maybe all those hungry
people of the world should demand more airtime. Does our country look
more powerful when a stage full of politicians stand together for a
photo shoot in a different land with the tax payers footing the bill for
the trip? Just curious?
The news we are not hearing is that all the fear, all the tragedy the
terrorist create, all the idiot drunken, blitzed entertainer stunts that
manage to captivate prime time news, all the natural disasters…all of
it, real and imagined, will not change one vital FACT. God is still in
control. We're not hearing that in the news at all.
Jesus said to proclaim the Good News. Yes, we need awareness of the
world around us but it is not dominate our thinking, control our
decisions, or determine how we go about living our lives. THAT, Friends,
comes under the Good News. We are to live in and with the knowledge
that God is still in control no matter which news station blares
insanity into your living room every evening. I am saddened when I see
people suffer and I pray for them but I rest in the knowledge that God
is in control. My grocery bill gets higher every time I walk in the door
for the same few items but God is in control. My country has lost its
collective mind but God is in control. Pig flu or bird flu matters not,
God is in control.
I refuse to bow down to the
fear mongers on network or cable, in print or online because I KNOW God
is in control. That's Good News, indeed!
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