Some refuse to see.
Some see and do not care.
Some see and pretend they did not.
Some see and look for an advantage for their own life.
Some see and do nothing, paralyzed by hopelessness.
And some, a small few, see and are changed forever.
In America (I cannot speak for other countries), I walk
around surrounded by many who do not see. I interact on occasion with some who
have seen and done nothing. People are blind. We’re blinded by ourselves, we’re
blinded by our false sense of security, we’re blinded by the bling of our
lives, we’re blinded by the busyness of life, we’re blinded by the
materialistic selfish ambition of our age.
Satan is a happy camper.
And I feel confused. I feel alone. I feel isolated, as if
everyone is walking around as if nothing is wrong and there’s a child dying
right in front of us. I look around and think, don’t they see? Don’t they
understand? But they’re laughing and discussing how they want a bigger house
and how they just spent $200 to re-dye their hair yesterday. And I stare at
that child, crying and afraid, and again I look around and think “why does no
one do something?”
But they don’t notice the child, they are too consumed with
their life, or they have chosen to ignore it, or they have seen and are even
moved to compassion but are too afraid of what others think to step forward.
My cousin has told me many times that when she has told
people about our mission trip to Africa they look at her and say with disgust.
“Why? Why would you ever choose to go there and to have to endure such
circumstances?”
Those words strike fear into my heart. Have we really fallen
so far that all we can think of is our own selfish comforts when human beings
are suffering and starving ALL OVER THE WORLD?
It frightens me too that someone would ever say such a thing
to another person. That they are too comfortable in their life to reach out to
others in such a way I could perhaps ignore, hut to criticize someone who has
selflessly made that sacrifice to help others? It makes me want to say “What is
wrong with you?!” “Have you no heart or desire for anything besides your own
temporary pleasures? You will die one day and everything you have will be rubbish.
Think beyond your own body and eyes to what is outside your window.”
I was taught as a child, to do unto others as you would have
them do unto you and that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say
anything at all. Simple instructions I learned as soon as I could walk.
And yet grown adults have not learned them.
America has become like a plastic Barbie doll world.
Disneyland is no longer just a fantasy place, our entire country has become
artificial and unreal. We are like robots, taught what to think and say and how
to dress and what to want. It’s all about appearances and success and your
opinion and what makes you happy.
And outside the bubble of the USA, the entire world is
crumbling, falling apart, beginning for help. Even America is crumbling. But we
wear our artificial glasses so we don’t have to acknowledge it. We think we are
so much better than others because of our indoor plumbing and our furniture and
houses.
But in the bargain of so many material pleasures, we gave up
something so precious. Yet we did not and still do not see it’s value. Our
humanity. Our love. Our ability to feel.
An amazing quote from a movie called Beyond Borders put it
beautifully.
“We drown it. Kill it. Numb it, anything not to feel.
You know, when I was a doctor in London, no one ever said 'medahani'. They
don't thank you like they thank you here. Cos here they feel everything,
straight from God. There's no drugs, no painkillers. It's the weirdest, purest
thing - suffering.”
We ask ridiculous and cruel
questions about life and cultures we don’t understand and refuse to see or care
about. We ask why do they continue to have children? When in parts of Africa
women are considered free game for the whole village raped at any time by any
man. This is not to mention that some tribes still circumcise their young
girls- meaning that sex is not only not pleasurable it’s painful.
It’s not just Africa
either. Middle Eastern families in the USA send their young girls back on “vacation” to be circumcised.
In China only one child is
permitted per family.
Even in the USA, women are
made a sex icon, sold into slavery EVERY day to be used as a play-toy because
we have made everything fun and games and not real.
Children kill their
parents, because it’s all a game, like in their video games.
Innocent people are killed
on passenger flights and we barely blink, it’s just like in the movies.
We blame mental health for
our problems, our parents, society, whatever we can point a finger at.
We abort millions of lives
instead of valuing life and family and the gift of a child.
We do not feel. We refuse
to feel. We are numb to life and walk around like statues.
“Seeing they may see and not
perceive,
And hearing they may hear and not understand;
Lest they should
turn,
And their sins be forgiven them.”- Mark 4:12
“The idols of the nations are
silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak;
Eyes they have, but
they do not see; They have ears, but they do not hear;
Nor is there any
breath in their mouths. Those who make them are like them;
So is everyone who
trusts in them.” – Isaiah 135: 15-18
If we would but see. If we would
be hear. If we would but let it change us, so that we could be the hands and
feet of Jesus.
OPEN YOUR EYES to what is around
you. Jesus died that all may not perish. This world is fading away; death and
sin are conquering the earth. But Satan will not win. He thinks he has the
victory but God will destroy Him in the last hour and conquer.
Info about the vacation genital cutting
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/us/a-fight-as-us-girls-face-genital-cutting-abroad.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=US_AFA_20140611&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=3
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