Here in this country and in many other places around this world the human experience has never been better. As I have often said to friends and family, "we live like kings". Compared to the billions of people that have walked this earth, we today, have so much more then they ever did. Think about it. Air conditioning alone should give us reason to do cartwheels every day. How about that fact we have indoor plumbing...image the other alternative. Dentistry....think what life would be like without a modern dentist. No need to grow, hunt or slaughter our own food. No need to make our own clothes. The ability to take a bath or shower everyday or multiple times a day if we want. TV, phones, cars, photography, sleep number mattresses, I could go on and on. However, despite all of these modern conveniences of life we are some of the most troubled people ever.
Suicide, murder, abortion, drug/alcohol addiction, and rape to name a few of the more serious troubles in our society today. Depression, anger, hatred, bigotry, laziness, gluttony/obesity more ills of our society. If we live like kings why all the issues?
What about plastic surgery for those with image issues and those who need larger breasts - can't forget these folks. Get rid of your grey hair and erectile dysfunction too. Vanity of vanities! Why are we so unhappy with what God has given us? Why do we always want more? Why do we continue to look for solutions to our unhappiness in all the wrong places? What is the consequence of all this misguided searching?
The answer to that last question is simple. More unhappiness. It's kind of like having an evil parasite living inside of you. The more you eat of this world and all of its woes the more it grows and the less nutrition you get. So you eat more to satisfy your hunger but you only help feed the parasite more...a vicious circle ending in your demise if not corrected. Similarly, there is a story about two wolves, a good wolf and a bad wolf, and a child asking which wolf will survive, and the child being told, "the one you feed".
What we need to do is stop feeding the bad wolf or evil parasite. We need to take the medication necessary to rid our bodies of the evil parasite while choosing to feed the good wolf - not the bad one. Jesus said, "I am the bread of life". If we feed on Him we will cleanse our bodies of the evil parasite. He also said, "Love one another as I have loved you". If we do this the bad wolf will have to look for food somewhere else.
We can truly live like kings if we follow the true King of Kings - Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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