A Thought for the Day – 028
One of the challenges the people of God face every day
is the co-mingling that naturally happens in the work place. Just being careful
around those that are evil is not enough. Through envy and desire a godly person
can suffer spiritual defeat, when the heart and lips take over we will be just as
vile and troubled. Proverbs 24:1-2
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Li'l
Abner is an American comic strip that appeared in many
newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan
of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, Kentucky.
Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909–1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from
August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977. It was distributed by United Feature
Syndicate. Comic strips typically dealt with northern urban experiences before
Capp introduced the first strip based in the South. Although Capp was from
Connecticut, he spent 43 years teaching the world about Dogpatch, reaching 60
million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28
countries. Inge says Capp, "had a profound influence on the way the world
viewed the American South." (Wikipedia)
If you
are under the age of thirty five you will have trouble knowing the characters
of Dogpatch, Kentucky but of course if you come from Kentucky as I do; to visit
with the Yokums from time to time is like taking a short trip back home. I miss
Kentucky and I miss the way things used to be in the broader balance of our
homeland.
Religions
and politics, death and taxes… these four subjects were as I recall “fighten
words” as we grew up; and now, just look at today. If those four subjects were
sitting together at the evening meal they would be father, mother, sister and
brother similar to what the apostle Paul says about the Corinthian Church; 1
Corinthians 2:1-5. Truth is that religion, politics, death and taxes are merely
diversions or distractions to America’s real problem.
Just
as Dogpatch, Kentucky is fictional but laced with Southern hospitality, love,
war and peace so are the four pillars of our homeland diversions in the sense
that while Dogpatch is full of fiction the truths as religion belongs to Satan
and politics belongs to mankind. Death belongs to Satan and taxes belong to
mankind; and yet you will find; hospitality, love, war and peace in both.
Should
we be alarmed at this or just go about life as if nothing matters? If you
believe that God exists as most Americans do, then why do you disbelieve that
Satan exists as most do? If good and evil can co-exist in fiction and in truth
(and it does) why then are we so blinded? God answers that question throughout
His Holy Bible, have you read it? If not start with 2 Corinthians 10:1-6 and 2
Corinthians 11:5-15.
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