As a society, where are we going? In the last few months, the world has changed so much. And it is still changing. Many countries, including Cebu, are going back to harsh and draconian measures, lockdown in your house. Again. People accept loss of freedoms as the new normal. And many are happy with it. Quality of life means nothing any more. The people’s minds have been manipulated- from quality of life, to stay at home and live. But is that life as God intended?
We can officially now change Ps 23. The LORD is my shepherd, he makes me lie down on my mattress in my house and leads me by quiet waters in my bathroom.
So much for the mountain pastures and the streams; what are they? I have forgotten. Oh...they were the bad old days. Now we have the new normal Ps 23 world - lie down in your house. Stay home. Stay alive.
It is the epitome of a death sentence. People should choose their freedoms, and the consequences of those freedoms. But those who are wealthy, powerful families, tell us what we should do, reinvent Ps 23, in fact - do not believe it. We have a whole NEW GROUP of Saviours. We are told this almost daily.
We used to sing - Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD - and sing and go up a mountain. Now, it is a picture - a bad memory of when we thought we were happy, but really we were not, as there is now the NEW HAPPY - stay locked up with tanks roaming the street.
I am so grateful people tell me how to be HAPPY now. I guess my whole life, and the WORLD up till March 2020, I was deluded.
The OLD Normal was bad. We must embrace the NEW NORMAL - treat ALL as your sickness.
The NEW HAPPY is the NEW HEAVEN. Stay home, stagnate, go insane. But don’t worry, you will be cremated within 24 hours.
Normal is re-interpreted.
Ps 23 is re-interpreted.
Saviour is re-interpreted.
Human normal behaviour is re-interpreted.
And most of the people? Embrace it. They love it. Sad.
So now, more than ever, we must be like Paul and Silas in Acts 16: 25. We are in prison, prison dictated by the WORLD, and yet we are still free to sing. Even though we can no longer climb every mountain - we can sing it. Even though we cannot lie by green pastures and still waters - we can imagine them.
I encourage you, to see God’s Word, as the opposite to what the World is trying to teach you. Do not let them twist your mind.
This is our moment, where our kids will observe us. This is our moment, where others are observing us. Do not surrender to the World and its ways, but surrender to the Lord Jesus. Be saved from this wicked generation. Be saved from it trying to manipulate your mind. Be saved from its false teaching they will save you.
They cannot even save themselves.
Be strong.
Lie down in the LORD’s pastures and quiet waters. They are still there. You must look for them, search for them, and you will find them.
Rest in the LORD.