Heartlessness

Premier League: Bolton Wanderers 1 v 0 Burnley

The Bible says something about people who are merely good at saying “God bless you!” to others. They are those who say all the right words and pray all the right prayers but when they are confronted with a person so messed up and in need of a deep spiritual overhaul, their true colors come out.

Itching Ears

Teenage girl whispering to teenage boy

We need euphemisms. Political correctness demands us to. What used to be violent outrages are now called dramatic episodes, lewdness and unbridled speech are now dressed up as honesty, pornography is art, and murdering an innocent child or a suffering patient is wonderfully called a choice. For every negative, evil, destructive and morally wrong idea or action, we’ve invented an ear- pleasing, socially acceptable and possibly conscience- appeasing vocabulary alternative.

Explain Away

If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He does not ask you to put it right; He asks you to accept the light, and He will put it right. A child of the light confesses instantly and stands bared before God; a child of the darkness says – “Oh, I can explain that away.” When once the light breaks and the conviction of wrong comes, be a child of the light, and confess, and God will deal with what is wrong; if you vindicate yourself, you prove yourself to be a child of the darkness.

Are You Wearing a Poker Face?

Yelling at the mirror

I was reading Joshua Harris’ blog a while ago when one of his entries caught my attention. It was about Mirror Faces, that facial expression we wear when looking at our reflection in a mirror. If you’re remotely like everyone else, I bet you have that kind of facial expression or body posture you always do when you stand in front of the mirror every morning. I do. My favorites are “chin up, chest out, and hold my breath for a few seconds just so I could fool myself into thinking that I’ve gotten slimmer.” For a few fleeting minutes every day, I somehow delude myself into thinking that I look just fantastic, smart and, uhmm well, good looking. I was wearing my mirror face.