FEASTING ON SLOP!

Why do kids sit in classrooms day after day in the gear of 'useless'? Where are their minds? What are they thinking? Most important of all,WHY are they sitting there so bored in a seeming semi-conscious state or bouncing,tapping,shaking in their seats? Where does their sense of entitlement come from? They appear no different than crack-heads coming out of a stupor and the popular phrase "stuck on stupid" is an apt description!

Are teens learning this behavior at home? Or has it just evolved over the years as part of our country's precipitous moral decline? We, as a nation, are not just falling, we have already fallen and we can't seem to get up. I personally don't know but 2 or 3 young people that I would even think could run for mayor of a city much less a national office! That is scary - especially when I think of the lives of my grandchilden. But I do know the answer (albeit controversial) to all of this craziess.

The reason for all of this malaise in teenagers and young adults is their source of food. Where are they grazing? Where are they feeding?#1. They continuously feed on methane gas produced by the ingredients in diet drinks. The eat and drink literally buckets of sugar each week, very few vegetables, and steroids, hormones,antibiotics,
and chemicals that permeate meats, processed foods, and fast food fare! So, to start off with, they are physically unhealthy - I don't care how many times a week they run or workout, the common teenage American diet stinks. #2. They are emaciated and skeletal, freakishly so, in their spiritual gleanings. Their meager fare, if any, is a simple verse or two and a "help me" prayer or two. And forget church, its too boring, in their opinion, to even bother listening to. So they are also spiritually malnourished.

Ah, their beautiful, intelligent minds! Really? What do they feed on but the slop of worldly indifference and their parents can't really define or explain what worldly indifference even means. Teens and adults feed hourly at the slop trough of movies, music, and media (through T.V., I-pods, I-phones, Androids, X-boxes, Wii's, PS's, DS's and DA's) Three strikes and you're OUT! Add to all of this poor nutrition for body, soul, and spirit, the fact of dumber than dirt education in most school systems, public and private, nationwide, and you have the makings of a catastrophe! Hence the rapid decline and near extinction of a nation.

Now, who do I complain to with this disturbing, controversial reason for our plight? A corrupt government? The local police? Why I can't even complain to the parents of these media crack-like-heads! Why? Because they are setting the example. They are pulled up and elbow deep at the same slop trough as their kids, eating away like there is no tomorrow. And there just might be a "no tomorrow" scenario sooner than we all think.

Now these are just generalizations and I don't mean to imply that every kid falls into this 3 generation-old mold, but the implications are MASSIVE and the delusional are multitudinous. How can so many be so clueless as to the deception they are swallowing? We have been blinded, hardened and smooth-talked for so long that we just accept as normal all of this mayhem.And it's not really so 'long'. America is only 236 years old! We just want to be left alone, be our own authority, and live our own lives as best we can.Selfish lot that we are, we don't even consider that moral decay and disrespect will just keep on spiralling downward, picking up speed thus making life unbearable for our children's children and their children. But we are more concerned with life now aren't we?

Do you have any examples (historical or present)of life getting better, of morality and decency improving over time? No, we don't even think of things like that because we are so wrapped up in nursing our own desires, always panting after more. Look around and compare. We are as far as dark is from light in living the way our Creator instructed us to live. Our whole lifestyle is a joke when held up to the light of Scripture! We are worse than the Egyptians, Assyrians and Babylonians in idol worship! They sacrificed their children to their man-made gods - we sacrifice our children to the god of self-interest! No matter - because we don't have the sense to raise children anymore and train them in right ways of living - we don't even know the right ways. They are all melded together with worldly ways and we can't tell them apart because we have accepted dung in place of gold!

We have been hood-winked, lulled and numbed into believing this lifestyle is A-OKAY! We adapt! We jump through hoops to 'conform', be accepted, to climb that social ladder! We inhale it! We love the chase! It's titillating, intoxicating - devil be damned! Our biggest hero is our football teams! Isn't that what Sundays, wait, Saturdays,wait, Fridays,oh,and Mondays are for?

We have evolved into something very sad. I return full-circle to my description in the first paragraph -scroll back up and read it again - staggering numbers of dysfunctional children in dysfunctional families, all thinking they are ENTITLED to anything they want. It is now, at this stage, an inbred attitude that is constantly renewed at the places they feed in the most - MUSIC, MOVIES, and MEDIA! They lust after and desire to feast upon the slop that pours forth, fountains of filth. They are addicted to the slop that is destroying their lives and their future. Movies, Music, and Media - a much larger and fiercer enemy than drugs or Taliban or terrorists. America is destroying herself!

TELEVISION VIEWERS BEWARE

Viewers of television, viewers of movies are pawns in the hands of a seditious enemy. Viewers can be called upon at anytime to do enemy bidding. The viewer's imagination has been taken captive and sludged into hypnosis. The only thing that causes the viewer to move is bodily functions, i.e. hunger pangs or trips to the bathroom.

These addicts of television, movies, internet, and techno-toys have their learning curves flattened, their worldview is narrowed, and their vocabulary is mere happy-talk,movie-talk,tv-speak and foul language.

"Well", the enraged viewer says, "what does God want me to do to fill my boredom?"
Try using your faculties to produce and use your bodies for delivery! Be always expanding your mind. If you're still in high school that will be more difficult, but, even you, must rescue your own mind from the mind-numbing, brainwashing socialism and dumbing down you are learning in school! You will have to find ways to expand your mind, to grow your brain power. If you follow the world and do the same things as everyone else, you are on the road that leads down.

Discover your purpose! Search deeply and thoroughly for it. Learn voraciously. Eagerly develop meaningful talents. Discover the difference between meaningful and meaningless; purposeful and pointless; productive and useless or wasteful. You CAN'T make these discoveries watching the latest 'chick flick'! Learn how to make a difference in your environment, in your circle of influence. Expand your heart. Forage out your full potential. God did not place you on earth to be bored or to twitter away time. He rewards productive, fruitbearing efforts. The higher road is a demanding road, but is also joyful and fulfilling.

Measure your success by how much of your time is spent producing, helping, learning, and expanding, measured against how much time you waste in trivia, the unimportant, meaningless, clueless activities of our modern stroke me society. Ask yourself, "Am I following or am I leading?" Television can be useful if it is not used for solace, killing, chillin, and wiling away time. It can be a tool for knowledge, information, witnessing, as can the internet, another major time consumer. But you must judge these things in what they produce and draw out of you. Using them for self-pleasure, killing time, a date-finder, or some kind of crutch is never useful. Nor is it pleasing to God.

Now, if you don't care about God or His purposes for your life then go ahead and lounge away all your free time. If you do care what God wants for you then STOP wasting His time! There is too much beauty and knowledge in the world and so many that need your help for you to be sitting like a staring clown in front of a TV, movie,computer, or game screen for hours filling your head with hours of mental junk! You might try asking yourself whenever you feel like 'vegging out', "How could I better use this time?" If you're tired, go to sleep. Even that is better than pouring the sewer into your brain. When Jesus said, "Take heed, watch and pray...watch...And what I say to you all: WATCH, He wasn't talking about watching TV! He meant watch out so you won't be deceived into thinking you have a right to vegg and bath in the sewer of most TV programming and many other pitfalls!

And only two more passages from God's Holy Word-just 2 out of a million-would indicate that God wants us to devote our time to His service, not our own emotional needs. ICor.15:58 "...be steadfast, immovable, ALWAYS abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain." And ICor 16:13,14 "Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let ALL that you do be done in love." (Words all in caps added for emphasis) God wants us to be mature in our thinking, not like children. He wants us to have nothing to do with evil except to conquer it. If we keep dipping our minds in sinful, lustful, violent scenes, evil will conquer us!

We shouldn't be deceived into thinking that we can watch sin and it will have no effect on us. Bad company ruins good character and that includes worldly company thru movie/television/computer/game screens. God tells us to wake up, come to, come back to reality. He says that some of you have no knowledge of God. He says this to our shame. What does God want from YOU? What is His purpose for you in this life? If you can't answer these two questions then you have no time to be watching movies with their subliminal messages and pointless propaganda.

QUIT DIMINISHING YOUR BRAIN POWER ON MENTAL JUNK FOOD!