One Tried And True Avenue

October 12

From the unwashed minions of Occupy Wall Street to the murderous mobs of muslims in Libya, the understatement of the century is perhaps, ‘We are in a season of discontent.’ Good sense would tell us that if we disdain the powers that control the world’s monies, we should join them to change them, and if a film offends the god we serve, we should produce a more skillful work that tells our version of the story.

But it requires an investment of oneself to do something positive to counter the things we find objectionable whereas it requires nothing but shouting obscenities or lashing out murderously at defenseless victims to further the interests of the Wall Street Bunch or the Islamic cut-throats whose stock in trade is finding offense.

Neither above-mentioned group is rational in its outrage. But rage is never rational. Those who think their causes are advanced by the intensity of their wrathful protest are delusional as well as destructive. Those who think worthwhile ends are attained—when un-embellished disdain for the accomplishments of others or hatred for those who do not bow at the altar of their belief system spur them to anarchy—are abjectly in error.

There is only one tried and true avenue on which an individual may walk to attain satisfaction and fulfillment and it is the path described in Isaiah 26:3 which says, “You, Lord, give true peace to those who depend on You because they trust You.” When you trust the Living God, you know He will make all things fair—and you understand that when He is offended, God is perfectly capable of exacting His own vengeance.