About a million lives were lost yesterday. In my kitchen.
Fortunately, it wasn't people. It was an ant colony.
We've had ant problems in our house all summer. They haven't really gotten into anything, but they were constantly crawling across our counters, windowsills, etc. I had to do something.
I got some Terro Ant Killer. It is a sweet liquid that attracts ants like nothing else. Literally a few drops and ants come out of the woodwork and surround it.
I placed several different drops of Terro on my kitchen windowsill, and within seconds, ants were crawling all over each other to have at it. It was like crack cocaine to these ants. They couldn't get enough of it.
They ran to the very thing that would kill them. They failed to see the danger. They weren't killed. They were enticed, and they willingly committed mass suicide just to have the pleasure of good-tasting poison. No one took their lives. They willingly gave them away for a moment's pleasure. Here is a video of the event:
We are like those ants.
We as human beings have the amazing capacity for self-destruction. How many of us are dealing with problems that are completely of our own doing? We did something stupid, simply for a moment's pleasure, that right now is killing us. We bought something that promised far more than it delivered and now we are stuck behind huge payments that are killing us financially. We dated someone who had no character and everyone warned us about, and now we are paying the price in the form of a broken heart, an STD, a pregnancy, or just plain old-fashioned hurt. We indulged a drug, for a moment's pleasure, that now has us addicted and rebuilding a completely broken life.
Our society reminds me of those ants. We sit down every night to a steady diet of trash, also known as television, where Jesus' name is used as a swear word, faith is ridiculed, casual sex is the norm, disrespect for parents is celebrated, and we wonder why we are dying as a society. We belly up to the bar and drink in filthy song lyrics, and we wonder why we are pessimistic. We dine every night at the table of perversion, calling good evil and evil good, and we wonder why we have school shootings, rampant debt, failing schools, broken marriages, complacent churches, wimpy pastors, ineffective laypeople, gangs, and rampant drug use.
Those ants swarmed over the poison, drinking it in with all their might. Yet are we any different? Our country is committing mass suicide. We have embraced and drank in filth, pornography, illicit sex, disrespect for elders, foul language, cynicism, and violence. We have pulled up to the table of secularism and postmodernism and drank our fill. We have chosen the poison, bypassing the real food and the real nourishment offered by faith, hope, love, joy, goodness, morality, self-denial, and sacrifice.
We are committing mass suicide on a daily basis, just like those ants on my windowsill. No one is taking their lives- they are willingly giving them up. I put down poison that was dressed up in an attractive way, and like unthinking morons, they went for what felt right. They decided their course of action with what made them feel good. They didn't stop to think of the consequences, nor did they learn when their friends started dying off. Thinking with their stomachs and their passions, they dove into the poison, enjoying for a moment what would kill them forever.
I think that pretty much sums up American culture right now. When will we, as people, sit up and realize the poison that not only has been set out for us, but that we are actually indulging in? When we will realize the consequences to our souls, to our homes, to our families, to our communities, to our nation?
When will we, as people, stop committing mass suicide and instead turn to the things that give us life- God, faith, goodness, trust, sacrifice, delayed gratification, joy, friendship, honesty, self-control, and most importantly, love?
Fortunately, it wasn't people. It was an ant colony.
We've had ant problems in our house all summer. They haven't really gotten into anything, but they were constantly crawling across our counters, windowsills, etc. I had to do something.
I got some Terro Ant Killer. It is a sweet liquid that attracts ants like nothing else. Literally a few drops and ants come out of the woodwork and surround it.
I placed several different drops of Terro on my kitchen windowsill, and within seconds, ants were crawling all over each other to have at it. It was like crack cocaine to these ants. They couldn't get enough of it.
They ran to the very thing that would kill them. They failed to see the danger. They weren't killed. They were enticed, and they willingly committed mass suicide just to have the pleasure of good-tasting poison. No one took their lives. They willingly gave them away for a moment's pleasure. Here is a video of the event:
We are like those ants.
We as human beings have the amazing capacity for self-destruction. How many of us are dealing with problems that are completely of our own doing? We did something stupid, simply for a moment's pleasure, that right now is killing us. We bought something that promised far more than it delivered and now we are stuck behind huge payments that are killing us financially. We dated someone who had no character and everyone warned us about, and now we are paying the price in the form of a broken heart, an STD, a pregnancy, or just plain old-fashioned hurt. We indulged a drug, for a moment's pleasure, that now has us addicted and rebuilding a completely broken life.
Our society reminds me of those ants. We sit down every night to a steady diet of trash, also known as television, where Jesus' name is used as a swear word, faith is ridiculed, casual sex is the norm, disrespect for parents is celebrated, and we wonder why we are dying as a society. We belly up to the bar and drink in filthy song lyrics, and we wonder why we are pessimistic. We dine every night at the table of perversion, calling good evil and evil good, and we wonder why we have school shootings, rampant debt, failing schools, broken marriages, complacent churches, wimpy pastors, ineffective laypeople, gangs, and rampant drug use.
Those ants swarmed over the poison, drinking it in with all their might. Yet are we any different? Our country is committing mass suicide. We have embraced and drank in filth, pornography, illicit sex, disrespect for elders, foul language, cynicism, and violence. We have pulled up to the table of secularism and postmodernism and drank our fill. We have chosen the poison, bypassing the real food and the real nourishment offered by faith, hope, love, joy, goodness, morality, self-denial, and sacrifice.
We are committing mass suicide on a daily basis, just like those ants on my windowsill. No one is taking their lives- they are willingly giving them up. I put down poison that was dressed up in an attractive way, and like unthinking morons, they went for what felt right. They decided their course of action with what made them feel good. They didn't stop to think of the consequences, nor did they learn when their friends started dying off. Thinking with their stomachs and their passions, they dove into the poison, enjoying for a moment what would kill them forever.
I think that pretty much sums up American culture right now. When will we, as people, sit up and realize the poison that not only has been set out for us, but that we are actually indulging in? When we will realize the consequences to our souls, to our homes, to our families, to our communities, to our nation?
When will we, as people, stop committing mass suicide and instead turn to the things that give us life- God, faith, goodness, trust, sacrifice, delayed gratification, joy, friendship, honesty, self-control, and most importantly, love?
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