BACK TO THE MONKEY BUSINESS - Just A Minute Radio for Monday 101227

            Hard to believe but here we are at the last week of December 2010…

 

            The world seems to spin by faster and faster.  This year particularly while we have what’s known as the ‘lame duck’ session. If I were advising the ‘lame ducks’ of the world I think I’d get them started on something more profitable than taking pot shots at one another across their bows… and trying to figure out just what the winning play would be for 111231 – just think how quickly we got from 1009 to today 101227… it’s like a turbo charged 60 mph wind that threatens to take away *everything.*

 

            For me, somehow, Pat Robertson’s switch from opposing marijuana to however he wants to describe it… I think it’s an atrocity to take a position of supporting the drug.  I don’t have the time or expertise to propose a ‘one size fits all’ remedy for the ailment.  Surely we have enough brains in this great nation to come up with something better.

           

            OK – What?  I hear voices coming across the water…?

 

            I only have a glimmer of what’s possible – and like the ‘one size fits all’ solution I know it’s not an answer to *everyone’s* questions – but I know this:  One of our children was caught up in this malady quite a while ago now.  We didn’t disown  that child, or boot it out of the house.  We set to work, and spent some resources – they were not all money nor did they all cost money – but the application of resources to the problem, thankfully, was successful.  And that child has responded and we all worked through the problem to where we have a useful and productive member of society – and in particular a Christian contributing to the well being and spiritual success of others.

 

            Does that mean that every child must find its own way out of the slough of despair taking the same steps?  No – but there certain basic ones. And I don’t presume to be able to present them here… but I know this… love, and attention including loving discipline does make a great deal of difference. I’m really not an expert – nor a legal or correctional scholar – but there are those in our midst whose experience and dedication to this kind of “falling off the table” so to speak, can make a difference.  Just deciding to ‘call off the war’ won’t do it – and I’m not firing strictly at Pat or his associates.

 

            It’s just when you, as a Christian, come up against a seemingly insoluble problem, our role is not to throw up our hands in despair and surrender.  If we’re in a war with Satan – then let’s proceed properly.  Realistically asses our problems and with love and kindness and fortitude let us proceed toward the victory gate with the LORD in command.