It's Too Easy

We live in a culture where everything is easy. And the "easier" it gets, the more complicated it seems also. 

Most people in our culture cringe at "Jesus Freaks." They've been taught in higher education classrooms across the country that Christians are small-minded bigots. They've learned how "cultured" the world is and how rainbows and roses it is to promote "peace" and "multiculturalism."

But you don't have to look far to see the truth: brokenness. Broken marriages, split-up families, custody battles, lay-offs, unfair promotions, gangs, rapes, sex trafficking, drug addicts, depression, anxiety, suicide... It doesn't take long to figure-out that the rose-colored glasses our Professors tried to make us wear to see the world with more "political correctedness" are clearly the wrong prescription.

I've never seen multiculturalism or peace heal brokenness. Have you?

But I have seen a Healer... 

The world and American society has put Jesus in a box and shoved Him away on a shelf with "folk lore." But, I'm telling you what this world needs more of... Jesus. He is the only way to wholeness. 

Oh, but Jesus is old school. And God is a hateful disciplinarian. Too harsh for my standards...

But you see, back in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve sinned, God gave humanity clear-cut consequences:

1. First God CURSED Satan... He punished The Snake and put enmity between him and humanity. (Genesis 3:14-15)

Then God turned to humanity:

2. Woman, you will have to endure painful childbirth. You'll desire to rule over your husband, but there'll be tension in that relationship (Genesis 3:16)

2. Man, you will have to toil the ground that I cursed and have a sweaty brow hunting and finding food for your family. You will die and return to dust. (Genesis 3:17-19)

*Let me just point this out: God did not CURSE Woman and Man. He only gave a CURSE to the Serpent & to the ground. *

God loves us, and any good parent gives a consequence to their child for wrong behavior. Our consequence? God gave us hard work and labor to remember Him...to remember the perfect love He had for us before we went and messed it all up by believing a stinking Snake. Parents give consequences to rectify relationship and justify poor behavior. God's no different.

But, here's the thing... That sneaky Snake is still operating his trickery. He wants nothing more than to hide to Truth...to shove Jesus in that neat little box up on a shelf to be forgotten and deemed "outdated." He enjoys brokenness. (John 10:10, I Peter 5:8) 


In fact, the Snake has perverted the very consequences God gave humanity in the Garden to restore relationship and rectify their wrong. That Snake has crept into our society, into the Church, into Christian homes in the form of "ease" and "deception."

You want some proof?

• Remember the first consequence of the Fall of Man? God cursed the Snake and said there'd be enmity between snakes and humanity. 
• PROOF: Go to ANY animal/science museum and enjoy the elaborate snake displays complete with a snake for you to hold, touch, etc. There's always a Curator talking about how snakes are friendly and they have a bad reputation but only harm insects. The rant goes on and on. And we've bought into it as a society. You can buy PET snakes, for crying out loud! We've become desensitized to the Snake.

• Remember the second consequence? God gave Woman pain in child birth and the desire to want to rule over her husband.
• PROOF: Child birthing has become much easier in modern ages, and the pain is virtually gone now with the use of medical technologies- drugs, epidurals, etc. Secondly, the Post Feminist culture we live in has told women that we are BETTER than men and can not only rule over them but excel in doing so. 

• The last consequence... Man's toil and death. 
• PROOF: The Industrial Revolution modernized farming and hunting. We don't have to grow our food anymore or hunt it. We simply go to the grocery store & buy manufactured food (full of chemicals and junk our bodies ought not ingest... but that's a separate blog entry). Oh and if you need it even easier than that then just spend money in the bajillion dollar restaurant industry: fast food, gourmet, All-American cuisine and everything in between.
• And DEATH? Pssshhhhh. Death is for dumb religious people. Who cares if we turn to dust? We're all just evolved pond scum anyway. There's no point or purpose for life... Live it up! Do what makes you happy. There's no eternity. There's NO GOD!

*sigh* 

You see? You see how that Snake is still deceiving? How that Snake has become the Ally to our modern culture? How that Snake is succeeding in holding back the FREEDOM... the DELIVERANCE... the PEACE of a real, true Savior!? 

Oh, Lord, I don't want easy anymore. Do you?

XO
Jessica