How do we separate ourselves?  This world doesn’t whisper its hollers, pesters and prods.  It is nearly impossible to escape sinful imagery plastered upon every form of digital media, infiltrating our consciousness.  The temptation to go and find a nice Mennonite town, grow my beard and buy a horse and buggy becomes increasingly plausible.  Does anybody else see the exponential acceleration toward the “all out” anarchy of wickedness?

Our youth are being lured into a digital war zone going on behind the scenes.  A place where boundaries are eclipsed, rules forgotten and morays abandoned, all in the name of “entertainment”.  When did the need for sensory stimulation rule our thoughts and actions?  Escaping or avoiding reality of this world has become increasingly inviting and progressively simple.  Our kids cannot perform normal social functions without a simultaneous text, game or web rendezvous.  What we cannot join we must fight for passivity is what created Adam’s original dilemma.  There are only three available options; acceptance, resistance and fence-sitting.  Where have you chosen to reside?

Men consistently root around in the Bible lacking exegesis seeking explanation, justification and freedom from the Word’s stark accountability and truth.  “Wiggle room” is the call of today’s man.  They seek acceptance into the fold of Christian fellowship halls not by adhering to God’s Word but by manipulation.  They seek to change the truth, or “revise” history to accommodate their willful disobedience.  It will not be long until the Lord of the Universe is redacted from His own manuscript.  HOLD FIRM to what is right and true.  We are entering a world increasingly hostile to believers.  The time for immature faith is rapidly passing away.  We cannot belong, we cannot accept, we must therefore overcome through the Blood of Lord Jesus and our testimony!  Praise You in Your infinite wisdom, Lord.  Protect our children and deliver us from this spiraling world.