Awareness, the silent killer!

Did you ever stop to take notice of the awareness campaigns that consume us on a day to day basis? It starts when we turn on the TV or the radio. That will usually be within the first ½ hour after I get out of bed. You can get news and/or weather anytime of the day or night. You’re bombarded with billboards and commercials on the way to work. When you get there you have memos and reminders and FYI’s to keep you up to date. On top of these things there are the targeted campaigns. These would include global warming, pollution, illnesses, food warnings, terrorist alert system and so forth. By the way, every problem is passed off as being your responsibility, something that you must act now to help counteract. Did you notice that every time there is a new story of some impending catastrophe or extinction or environmental threat it is always the human race’s fault? All of us….period!

Now before you get out your soapbox and start defending your position, let me be clear on mine. We make decisions as human beings that affect everything around us. The Bible says that a man’s heart devises his way…but the Lord directs his steps. It gives a clear picture that these things are consequences of choices that we make. But it also gives the picture that God still has this thing very much under control. The sin nature that we inherited has consequences. But God is forgiving concerning those stupid choices and shows us grace that we do not deserve concerning those consequences.

Now back to my point about awareness…it takes our eyes off of Biblical truth far too often. It focuses us on the problems or false solutions to issues that are blown out of proportion. It causes stress and puts on us a load that we were not designed to carry. The Bible, speaking of the last days, talks of men’s hearts failing them for fear. I used to think that was due to the things that the Bible predicts are coming upon us. I now believe that this is referring to the fear and stress brought on by awareness of all of the things going on around us and what situations these things may cause us to be in.

Have you ever thought about that original stupid choice that got us into this mess to begin with? It had is basis in mistrust (of God) and was based on the promise that awareness would be a much better state of mind for us as human beings. Satan first questioned God’s integrity concerning what He had promised Adam and Eve concerning the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and eating its fruit. Then Satan made a promise of his own to Eve, “You’ll be like God, knowing good from evil.” All she had to do was to make a choice concerning who to believe. Boy, what a deal…paradise, innocence, true love and fellowship, traded for knowledge, for awareness of what was going on. I personally think that Adam and Eve got gypped.

Now I can hear you from here, saying to yourself “but I have to be involved and in control of all of these situations concerning me. I mean after all doesn’t God help those that help themselves. That’s what the Bible says isn’t it?” No it doesn’t. It actually says that God helps the helpless, those that can’t help themselves.



Guess I need to quit rambling and get to my point huh? So here goes. I read in the Bible that God knows my rising up and my lying down, and has numbered the hairs on my head. I’m told not to take a thought as to what I will eat or what I’ll wear. I’m told He has intimately known my days since before the beginning of the world. At that time He knew the day I would be born, the day and very second I will die and all of the details in between. By the way, He has also told us exactly how this world will pass away…yes I said pass away. That means how it will eventually be destroyed and then remade. That is in a literal sense. He has also promised that day and night and summer and winter and springtime and fall will not cease to be as they are until that time comes. He is clear that there is nothing that can be done to hasten or postpone this day ……the time is set in stone.

So what is awareness? The longer I live and the more I read the Bible and think about what it says, I see that it is just one more tool that Satan uses to keep us from trusting God with every detail of our lives. Jesus said that if a man were come to Him then the man must come as a little child. Just like our children trust us to feed them, wipe their hineys and snotty noses and take care of every little detail. As a matter of fact, they aren’t even aware that there are details. They just look at us and cry and know we’ll be there. God is better than the best parent. Think on that a bit. Just wanted you to be aware…….:)