I'm OK (You're OK)
In case anyone is wondering, I'm OK. Yesterday was not the worst day of my life, in spite of what the chain letter told me. Today's not going so hot, but the chain letter didn't mention today, so I'm guessing it's just fate.
Was watching a documentary on the power of tyranny, and did some thinking about freedom...
We live in a world that David Icke describes as a "prison without walls." Giving it some consideration, I thought of the metaphor of an ant farm. On their scale, ants appear to have liberty. They can dig wherever they choose, they can interact as they desire. But their freedom only exists within the boundaries that their "keeper" has set up. Their destiny lies at his whim. If he decides to cut off the food, the ants go hungry. If he decides to shake the farm, all of their digging work is destroyed, and they must begin again.
Now, some could say that the ant farmer is God. But what if the farmer were a man, or a group of men? And "we the people" are the ants? And we are given certain liberties, and allowed a certain degree of freedom, only so that we don't care to question the greater threats to our ultimate liberty?
The same illustration applies to our relationship with God. We are given liberty and freedom of will by our Creator, but the boundaries involved are based upon love, truth, and justice. We can operate with full freedom in Christ because the true love and liberty of Christ don't allow fear into the equation.
Our "national" freedom, in the "land of liberty," is hedged by boundaries of greed, deception, and injustice. Our so-called freedom is drained of true liberty by fear - a fearful condition created for us and in us by the keepers of our global ant farm. The people with the money, the power and access to the media.
We as a nation have long been held under the oppressive thumb of fear - fear of the Nazis, Fascists and Socialists; fear of the evils of Rock & Roll; the fear of Communists both here in our country and around the world; fear of nuclear attack; fear of natural disasters; and most recently, fear of terrorists - just to name a few.
So what can we do? Ultimately, we can have little effect on the overall picture. It would take a grassroots movement of a huge number of Americans to effect any change at all. And people are just too complacent and fearful to make the effort. So we ants just go on digging, frequently looking over our collective shoulder.
We could choose to live in the freedom God has given us, in Christ. The only true freedom we can ever really experience. And in that freedom is the freedom from fear. To paraphrase (liberally) the Bible, since I'm too lazy to go look it up: "Who by worrying can add even a single hour to his life?" and also, "Don't worry about tomorrow; tomorrow has enough worries of its own."
Was watching a documentary on the power of tyranny, and did some thinking about freedom...
We live in a world that David Icke describes as a "prison without walls." Giving it some consideration, I thought of the metaphor of an ant farm. On their scale, ants appear to have liberty. They can dig wherever they choose, they can interact as they desire. But their freedom only exists within the boundaries that their "keeper" has set up. Their destiny lies at his whim. If he decides to cut off the food, the ants go hungry. If he decides to shake the farm, all of their digging work is destroyed, and they must begin again.
Now, some could say that the ant farmer is God. But what if the farmer were a man, or a group of men? And "we the people" are the ants? And we are given certain liberties, and allowed a certain degree of freedom, only so that we don't care to question the greater threats to our ultimate liberty?
The same illustration applies to our relationship with God. We are given liberty and freedom of will by our Creator, but the boundaries involved are based upon love, truth, and justice. We can operate with full freedom in Christ because the true love and liberty of Christ don't allow fear into the equation.
Our "national" freedom, in the "land of liberty," is hedged by boundaries of greed, deception, and injustice. Our so-called freedom is drained of true liberty by fear - a fearful condition created for us and in us by the keepers of our global ant farm. The people with the money, the power and access to the media.
We as a nation have long been held under the oppressive thumb of fear - fear of the Nazis, Fascists and Socialists; fear of the evils of Rock & Roll; the fear of Communists both here in our country and around the world; fear of nuclear attack; fear of natural disasters; and most recently, fear of terrorists - just to name a few.
So what can we do? Ultimately, we can have little effect on the overall picture. It would take a grassroots movement of a huge number of Americans to effect any change at all. And people are just too complacent and fearful to make the effort. So we ants just go on digging, frequently looking over our collective shoulder.
We could choose to live in the freedom God has given us, in Christ. The only true freedom we can ever really experience. And in that freedom is the freedom from fear. To paraphrase (liberally) the Bible, since I'm too lazy to go look it up: "Who by worrying can add even a single hour to his life?" and also, "Don't worry about tomorrow; tomorrow has enough worries of its own."
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