With Our Eyes Wide Open
Do you remember when every little town had privately owned businesses on the main street, and the owners almost always lived upstairs over the business?
There used to be a story told of a business owner living upstairs over his business who heard a burglar one night breaking into his store. He tried to rouse his wife, who was slumbering next to him to go downstairs and scare the burglar away. He couldn’t raise his wife, but didn’t want to get out of his nice warm bed either. He thought to himself, that maybe someone else had heard, and the police would arrive and protect his property from the burglar. He heard another noise from downstairs, but still didn’t want to leave the nice comfortable surroundings to go down and meet the burglar. He thought to himself that if he just would wait a little while longer, the whole thing might be over, and the burglar would just go away.
As it turned out the man never did get out of bed to meet the burglar, and when he went down to his business the next morning, everything was gone. He had become so complacent, comfortable, cozy, and warm, he had forgotten his own responsibility towards his own business, and everything had been taken away.
That is the problem with being so dependent on the government. Over time we become complacent, comfortable, cozy, and warm, and forget that we have a responsibility for taking care of our own lives and business. We have a responsibility to keep the burglar from taking away everything. The more dependent we are on the government, the less independent we become.
Francis Schaeffer wrote a book in the mid 70’s entitled How Should We Then Live?. In that book, he states there would come a day in our future when our citizens would become so complacent, comfortable, cozy, and warm, we would give up everything. He states further as long as the government promises not to take away our house, our cars, our boats, our weekends on the lake, we would give up our personal freedoms just so we wouldn’t have to be bothered. Schaeffer called it “personal peace and affluency”.
With our eyes wide open, we have fallen asleep and become so complacent, comfortable, cozy, and warm, we have not been willing to go down and meet the burglar.
How did we manage to do this? We all lead extremely intense lives. When we are not trying to make a living, we are trying to enjoy the living we have made. We have stress that never goes away, and the very thought of it, just brings on more stress.
We have for years trusted the Main Stream Media to keep us informed about the workings of our society. We dared not to even think that the MSM had stopped doing their job of constantly searching for the truth. We have for years trusted our elected officials to do the right thing when sent to Washington, and have not dared to think otherwise. We have for years trusted our court system, thinking our Constitution was spelled out clearly, so, how could the courts possibly be wrong.
We have awakened to find the MSM no longer seeks the truth, the elected officials only do what is right in their own eyes, and the courts write the laws, thereby making the Constitution no longer relevant. As a result, we no longer have God in our homes, we no longer have God even mentioned in man’s explanation of creation, we no longer have prayer in our public school classrooms, God is being threatened in our pledge of allegiance to this great country, and now the threat to remove God’s Ten Commandments completely from our government buildings and grounds.
We have gone to sleep with our eyes wide open, and have not even bothered to get up meet the burglar, and now wonder why everything has been taken away.
