I know...pretty cheeseball replying to my own post but as soon as I hit
send I had another thought run through my mind, that I feel speaks to
this thread.
I am sure everyone has heard of & maybe seen a movie called "The
American President." In one scene there is a heated debate between the
president, Michael Douglas, and his senior domestic policy advisor,
Michael J. Fox. Fox is trying to convince the president to be more
aggressive, and he says with great passion:
[People] want leadership. They’re so thirsty for it they’ll crawl
through the desert toward a mirage and when they discover there’s no
water, they’ll drink the sand.
The president responds coolly,
People don’t drink the sand because they’re thirsty; they drink the
sand because they don’t know the difference.
And just to throw an interesting spin on the whole thing. I came across
a verse from the Bible...yes the Bible that kind of deals with this.
And please no flames...just hear me out first. The verse is Deuteronomy
8:7-18.
A blog that I read on this section puts it better then I could.
Scene: Moses is giving his parting speech to the Isrealites in the desert.
“We are standing right at the brink of the promised land,” he says to a
skeptical crowd. "Wonders await you that you can’t imagine: abundant
water, fruit growing on every tree, and land that will yield food when
you plant and riches when you dig. I’m scared for you, though, because
I’ve noticed you have a nasty habit of forgetting God.
“Just before we crossed the Red Sea you started complaining that it
would be easier to go back to Egypt, and barely had it begun flowing
again before you were complaining about water and food, wishing you had
died and not trusting God. Even when God gave you bread from heaven you
wouldn’t trust that it would come again. And of course, we can’t forget
how I found you worshipping a golden calf when I came down from the
mountain where I received the covenant for you.
“God has been forgiving so far, but we must all realize that we stand at
a new place, and we must think about how far we have been brought and
how much has been given to us. If we forget, there is a cost we
certainly cannot afford.”
An interesting parallel huh? If you look at it with an open mind...
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