Breaking news-Robin Williams, noted Orkan dead from apparent suicide. He
was 63. That was the breaking news story on every TV news program yesterday,
and again this morning. Now I thought he was funny, we had even been to
Boulder and even seen the Mork and Mindy house. We laughed when we saw his
spontaneous tirades on TV, the man was funny, and gifted. But somehow last
night I went to bed feeling bad, not for him, or his fans, or myself, but for
America. For the following news items all gave way to Robin’s suicide.
Continued bombings of ISIS, who are worse than Al Qaeda, murdering and beheading
women and children, committing genocide to those who will not deny
Christianity. Who came to power after we told the world when we would
prematurely pullout of Iraq. And never intervened with the 170,000 murdered in
Syria, after we drew a line with them. Hamas and Israel are on another cease
fire, as Hamas, another terrorist group using citizens for protection, hiding
rocket launchers in their homes. A peace brokered by Egypt because the US
cannot, Egypt hates the Moslem Brotherhood, we let them visit the White House.
A black young man, age 18, scuffles with a policeman and is shot, and his
parents seek justice, which really is revenge, they want him dead or in jail.
The president called and vowed the FBI to investigate. Meanwhile a Marine
sergeant sits rotting in a Mexican jail, while he does nothing. Obama sending
millions overseas to help refugees, but Texas provides its own National Guard to
protect the border, while the president plays golf on Martha’s Vineyard.
Finding time to tweet about Robin Williams. The World Health Organization tells
us EBOLA is an international risk, and we may have a potential cure, but we
won’t send it to Africa where it is spreading. Instead, we bring the EBOLA
patients here, protected in the same contamination suits they were wearing to
prevent getting the virus, introducing it into the United States. We are now
arming the Kurds to defend what is left of Iraq, claiming this people without a
country are our best friends in the Mid East, isn’t Israel our treaty partner in
the same area? And aren’t they a country? They defend their borders. And what
of the United Nations? Who by the way, are conspicuously absent from world
affairs, holding more meetings and conferences, but not sending troops or aid.
And NATO, I thought we were part of the treaty? Where are they? Meanwhile
Benghazi, the IRS and its missing emails, and Lois Lerner shy away from
tonight’s news, somehow not making the cut. Congress is on vacation, so is the
president, making me wonder who is running the country? Or are we just waiting
for another catastrophe to react to, rather than prevent. Leading from the
rear, called chasing your tail, isn’t leading. But gas prices are down, the Dow
is up, and A-Rod is protesting his discipline from using illegal drugs. The
police in Colorado where pot is now legal, have no laws to test for driving
under its influence, and accidents are increasing, but with no prevention in
sight. And finally, Amazon announces a run on Robin Williams DVD’s, already
back ordered less than 8 hours after his death. He was known to be deeply
depressed.....and what does that make you, with all this other real news going
on, is this breaking news or is the news really broken? Oh, almost forgot,
Ninja Turtles led movie sales at $65 million.
Now this is not political, so don’t try to twist it as such. Just reports
from various news sources last night and this morning. And I wonder, how far
have we really fallen, and how much farther do we have to fall before we get
it? As the NSA continues to monitor all our actions, and we continue to lose
all our privacy, I find myself inside looking out, the inmates are running the
asylum, or maybe should be-they could do a better job. An interesting news
piece was on this weekend, it is 40 years since Nixon quit as president, and TV
shows aired the Watergate investigation. Which I remember, Nixon was the first
president I voted for, just turning 18 that year, and we all remember his famous
“I am not a crook.” But one article mentioned something I hadn’t seen or heard
before, out of the hundreds of hours of Nixon’s tapes, how did they know that on
such a date, at such a time, for such a duration, the investigators should
listen? Who in the White House ratted Nixon out, and why? We may never know,
but today you could be sure it would make news...right after TMZ. And so maybe,
the news is letting us down, I miss Walter Cronkite, once the most trusted man
in America. Huntley and Brinkley bringing us the news, straight faced and
soberly. And I find that in a world that is decaying, nothing is new under the
sun. And like the frog in the pool, who likes the warmer water, doesn’t realize
it is too late until he is cooked. The news phasers have been set on stun, and
we are, we just don’t know it. But it will all change soon, for there is still
hope for this world.
Jeremiah prophesied for over 40 years, not seeing any of the predictions
God gave him coming to pass. He was mistreated, made fun of, and regarded as
crazy. Much like Noah was until it started to rain. But we are told in
Jeremiah 17:9 that the heart is deceitful, and cannot be understood. It is
beyond cure. Yet Dr. Drew tells us to trust our feelings, why we are advised to
get in touch with our inner self. Dr. Phil wants us all to get along, and where
is Dr. Joyce Brothers when we need her? Did Robin Williams get in touch with
his inner feelings? Did he trust is heart until the end, leaving his wife to
find his body? After being depressed and being an alcoholic, were his inner
feelings really horrors? What did his actions tell us about his inner
feelings? Where did he turn to, his friends? Long ago we learned, put drug
addicts together, you find better scores. Same with car thieves, you make
better thieves. So why do we trust our hearts, who let us down, our feelings
who can depress us? What do you do? Where do you turn?
Jesus is there, He never left us. To the end, He was with Robin, just
waiting for him to turn to Him for help. He doesn’t force His way into lives,
and doesn’t charge fees. Yet His success rate is 100%. So why is He avoided?
Because the heart is wicked, and wants it way, not God’s. It takes a contrite
heart, and a broken spirit to come to Jesus, and ask forgiveness, it is called
humility, no appointment needed. And I rather be humbled than humiliated. It
is that simple, and everybody on earth will some day come face to face with the
question, “who is Jesus?” Peter answered “thou are the Lord,” and Jesus told
him he answered correctly. Jesus taking broken lives, broken news, and turning
lives into testimonies. Turning freaks into people, instead of people into
freaks. He is the answer, yet many turn away. Today you can turn to Him,
before it is too late. Your death may never make the news, but it is important
to God, so important He wants you to live forever. So He sent His son
Jesus.
The news today will be the movies of tomorrow, and we know how it all will
end. Except we won’t be here. Make your reservation for heaven, you don’t want
to see how the news reports the disappearance of millions of Christians. All
found in the Bible...outlawed in many countries. Read it while still available
here.
love with compassion,
Mike
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