I don’t normally make a political statement, not directly anyway. Not much point in cursing and ranting at the darkness, but this morning I feel the need to at least point out that the darkness exists and it is dangerous.

There is a young congresswoman bitterly complaining about the "Jesus Gets Us" ads that ran during the Superbowl. I find this very disturbing considering the things she puts up with such as the Antifa movement and other not-so-good things. It seems to me that she uses whatever she can to gather attention for herself. She obviously doesn't care to have anything good to do with God. She wants no real relationship with him or His son. She is in effect her own god, like so many others, which is worse in her position. This is a very dangerous way to be. I asked myself what would I say to her if given the chance, what words would I use to pierce her tough heart and let some light shine into it. I found them in two books not written by me but by someone else, I would say them and hope and pray they would make some impact on her:

It is the big delusion,

the height of arrogance,

the seductive trap,

the big dark danger.

it leads nowhere

good.

Its destiny is

death.

It sat at the center

of the disaster in the garden.

It propelled the sad

rebellion of Adam and Eve.

It tempts us all

again and again in

situation after situation,

location after location,

relationship after relationship.

We fall into thinking

what multitudes of our

lost forefathers thought.

We buy into this one fateful

thought,

that perhaps we are smarter than

God,

that maybe our way is smarter than

his way.

Only grace can deliver

the deluded from the

danger that they

are to themselves.............

Paul David Tripp

I would tell her that I am praying for her and that she would come to realize that Jesus is still there to rescue us. He is there to save her and us from drowning in the sea of our own delusions before it is too late. We simply have to take his hand and let him pull us up and heal our hearts and souls.

Psalm 14

For the director of music. Of David.

1 The fool says in his heart,

“There is no God.”

They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;

there is no one who does good.

2 The Lord looks down from heaven

on all mankind

to see if there are any who understand,

any who seek God.

3 All have turned away, all have become corrupt;

there is no one who does good,

not even one.

4 Do all these evildoers know nothing?

They devour my people as though eating bread;

they never call on the Lord.

5 But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,

for God is present in the company of the righteous.

6 You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor,

but the Lord is their refuge.

7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!

When the Lord restores his people,

let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!