Woke – active awareness of systemic injustices and prejudices. Sounds great, doesn’t it? How did it become so distorted that it now promotes injustice, and prejudice against a new set of victims? If you haven’t noticed, you are either a misguided attacker, or you are spiritually asleep. By the time they get to you, it will be so engrained in society it will have become the law of the land and you will have no choice but to comply.
Much like public education (and Child Protective Services) which sounded so good, it has become a way for the government to take control of your children. Once it was unthinkable to give an aspirin to a child without getting parents’ permission, then came birth control, sex education, and now gender transition without notifying the parents. Christian Foster and adoptive parents were once sought after but now it can be a disqualifier.
That is why Paul wrote: “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is” (Eph 5: 1-17 KJV). That should keep you busy until JESUS calls us home.
But that’s just a bunch of scripture, I could have read that in the Bible! If you had, I wouldn’t have been given those scriptures to share with you again. Here are a couple more you will need also: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Mat 22:37 and 39 KJV). If you were doing these, you would already be doing the others.
What is the point of all these scriptures? Wake up is a modern way to put it but JESUS said, “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mat 4:17 KJV). Maybe we should listen and obey before it is too late?
Wayne Lance – That’s Good News to Share!