Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. ( Proverbs 30:2-3) There has to be a point when somebody stands up and screams, "The Emperor has no clothes on!" Or warn the people "The inmates are now running the asylum!" Or how about this for a battle cry? "Let my people think!" We have become a nation that reasons like children and no one seems to be particularly upset about it. The overriding argument given now for crafting new laws, voting for candidates and even for deciding what truths to believe or what kind of moral being to become is born out of four silly little words that children often use to explain their behavior: "I felt like it." "Johnny, why were you smearing peanut butter on mommy's white wall?"..."I felt like it." "Jane, why did you eat the last four pieces of chocolate cake?"..."I felt like it." "Tommy, don't kick the dog!..."But dad, he makes me mad...and I felt like it." "I felt like it" has to be the lamest excuse for why a child chooses to do what he wants to do. And the good parent will never fall for this as a valid explanation. So wouldn't you think this answer would not be tolerated by our highly educated and evolved society? Hardly! And quite the contrary, it has now been our ipso facto, numero uno default explanation for accepting any kind of behavior and action in the public square. I just read how two Irish brothers decided they wanted to become women and their explanation to make such radically altering life decisions was based on the argument, "We felt like it." Our former Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton, was asked who gave her permission to set up a private server in her home even though it was not complying to federal security standards for personal emails, after she hemmed and hawed, eventually alluding to, "I felt like it...disguised in the phrase, 'It was for convenience.'" When adults around the country dress up like their favorite super-hero at the hundreds of Comic Cons around the country spending boatloads of money, or 25 year old men dance to "My Little Pony" at Bronie conferences, or marriages dissolve because husbands won't stop playing video games - - you know the "I felt like it" culture is alive and well. Paul was right in 2 Timothy 3, "People will become lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." People these days are really "Feeling It!" Hitler sanctioned the systematic murder of 11 million Jews because he felt like it. We abort hundreds of thousands of babies each year in our country because we feel like it. If this is our standard for arriving at truth, where will it stop? It won't. You can always find an evil word-smith (a.k.a. Lawyer) that can paint overt wickedness to seem righteous and righteousness to look repressive and intolerant. "Freedom is the right to do as I please." "You don't have the right to judge me." "If a person feels that way, who are we to say they are not that way?" See, feeling rules. Last year I expressed to my son how he needed to do his homework. But he was playing some crazy Clash of Clans game - - so he said to me, "Dad, I don't feel like it, so I don't want to - - it is a free country you know?" He gets it, he understands the power of personal feelings. However, as his father, I DON'T feel it! "Not in this house. Freedom is determined by me since I feed you." True freedom, according to the Bible, is when I am no longer controlled by my self-destructive passions and urges. True freedom is to live in the world as I have been designed by God to live: "created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." (Ephesians 4:24). True freedom is not something that is "felt"; but it is something that is understood. The other day I was worried about running out of gas because the tank was on E. I thought for a minute, "I wish I could just fill up the tank with the water hose." I really felt like doing it, but it would have been utterly foolish. I know when it comes to cars and engines I am relatively stupid; but I am not that stupid. I will not let my feelings ruin my engine. But the vast majority of Americans don't mind letting "I felt like it" ruin our dignity, humanity, society and rule of law. "I felt like it" is making a mockery out of us. We truly have become stupid people.
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6/3/2016 11:42:03 pm
server in her home even though it was not complying to federal security standards for personal emails, after she hemmed and hawed, eventually alluding to, "I felt like it...disguised in the phrase, 'It was for convenience.'"
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