June 23, 2015
Imprisoned
ABC’s news 20/20 reported on a
recently released documentary film, “The Wolfpak.” The film is about a family of
nine imprisoned by their father in a NYC apartment. The paranoid man, who had
the only key to the apartment, kept his family locked away for 14 years. In the
cultish environment the children were home schooled by their mother and entertainment came through watching countless movies. One day the oldest boy escaped the
apartment and the captivity ended. What I find astonishing is
that the father was not employed and his lifestyle of imprisoning his wife and
seven children was made possible through welfare and public housing. Paul
warned of idleness, “For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “If
a man will not work, he shall not eat” (2 Thess 3:10 NIV).
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Gail;
-----”Without welfare and public housing how is anyone who can’t work going to live?” How truly amazing it is that many evils are born of good intentions! Like welfare meant to feed the needy, the Civil Rights Act focused on empowering blacks (and other minorities as a byline.) Looking back from fifty years later, we can see doors locked to black folks that needed opening. The Civil Rights Act intended only to open those doors, but the recent photo of young blacks flipping fingers and dancing on a police cruiser they destroyed indicates somebody has taken more advantage of empowerment than this man took of welfare. The media has for it an absolute freeway, empty of any other traffic, laid by the First Amendment’s intention to empower watchdogs over government and society. The magnitude and impact of the lies rolling off the press over the last twenty years exceeds astonishment. It most often is not the deceitful mind rolling the first boulder of fraud downhill. It is the narrow mind. It is the mind which does not explore all possibilities before spewing contagious ignorance onto unwary masses. It is enough to make one wonder if good results from good intentions are flying pigs.
-----Here’s an example of how good intention easily goes awry. A Sunday School teacher once side tracked onto the impossibility of understanding the Book of Revelation, therefore the uselessness of teaching it. I don’t think he realized he was talking about the feckless Word of God which goes out and evidently, because it cannot be understood, comes back empty. It seems I wonder about this guy more than others do, because his classes always brim with doting students even more than his popular pastor’s classes do. So, any mention of, “…which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known…” (Rev 1:1) or of, “Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein…” (Rev 1:3) or of, “These words are trustworthy and true…Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book…I Jesus have sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches,” (Rev 22:6,7,16) would only have drawn a whole roomfull of scorn. So, once again, a good intention, for whatever purpose it had, draws out the evil of discounting God’s own Word and Jesus’ ability to communicate it. It is no wonder most churches today even take part in belittling the Bible to make room for evolution.
-----Good intenders are not evil. They are simply narrow minded. We all are simply narrow minded. That is why God’s Word so often prescribes humility. Everyone wants to press their good intentions to the point of producing every wonder intended. The problem is, unlike turnips, good intentions under pressure do produce blood. Lots of it. Hitler intended utopia.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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