Clouds without water

I have devoted my columns to topics about Christian morals and Christ-like living. Sometimes, though, I like to share my views about the world in which we live, because I feel that what we believe about God and how we demonstrate it is clearly linked to how we process and react to the current political climate. Morally speaking, for me there is no separation of church and state. 

Listening and watching the events taking place around the world reminds me of what the author of the letter of Jude wrote when he described the rebelliousness and all its ornamentation demonstrated by those heretics within the Church of his day.  If what he said was what was taking place in the body of Christ then, the chaos outside the Church must have been mind boggling. And we don’t have to imagine it, we only have to turn on the television and see it happening today everywhere and all the time.

The letter of Jude says, “As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighboring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication, and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. In like manner these men also defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and blaspheme majesty....these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted.

“...Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves, and have perished in the contradiction of Korah. These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion; wandering stars..murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires, and their mouth speaking proud things, admiring persons for gain's sake..mockers, walking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses. ”

These colorful words of the author illustrate today’s mindset of those wolves-in- sheep’s clothing doing their evil deeds within the Church and those folks currently involved in the turmoil and demonstrations boiling up all over the globe.

While the Christian Church is experiencing a huge shakedown  that is separating the wheat from the chaff, secular society is still heaving with the rise of chaos on Main Street, World.  The not-so-distant “unorganized” protests which ignited gullible, “social justice” free thinkers remind me of the great songwriter/musician Steve Taylor’s lyrics: You say humanist philosophy is what it’s all about? You’re so open minded that your brains leaked out.