Today’s Thought “Not In My Neighborhood” G. Ward

Matthew 9:36

Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.

 

Civic unrest has now grown rampant in one of our great cities (St. Louis, MO.) and many viewing the news remain comfortable because these heathen perpetrators don’t stand a chance in our “law and order” areas. Despair, along with men as lovers of self however, is with transcendence of both geography and socio-economics. Gang warfare in the inner city is road rage on any interstate. Frivolous destruction of property is synonymous with progressive urban developments that invites wayward spending causing recessions while greatly contributing to the erosion of “green space” whereby the inevitability of lack in oxygen remains imminent.

What seemingly was past generations in lack (i.e. technological advancements), comparably waiting for food to heat in the old-fashioned oven vs. the speed of the microwave, allowed many from prior generations to more contemplate prudence over convenience; which may have lent itself to remembrance of parental instruction that demanded cognizance of the LORD being near vs. current messaging promoting consultation with Holy God only necessary as destruction, distress and uncertainty persist (*Pr.1:24-28)…