I know God has said not to call people fools or foolish, but some of their actions when it snows or whenever just makes them do dumb things.
We are expecting a ton of snow here where I live and we had already decided to go out shopping. Not because of the storm, but my wife needed some supplies for the meals she is planning to fix.
When we get to the grocery store I think people have gone nuts. Everything is bought up and the storm is two days away. Just about all the produce and meats are gone, the milk was completely gone. The shelves containing the canned vegetables and soups were just about empty. I saw people with two and three shopping carts full of food. You would have thought these people would not get out for a month.
The last time I looked, we do not live in the remote parts of Alaska. I live in a town of almost 80,000 people, with another town of almost 30,000 about five miles away and another small city of almost 25,000 about 8 miles away. Most of the roads have been cleared within hours of the snow stopping.
So I am a bit perplexed by people who go out and buy all this food for a storm that will end in about 2 days, leave 12-24 inches of snow, and probably be melted by the middle of the next week since the temperature is supposed to get into the 40s.
However, that is not the worst part. Tonight coming out of the store, there are three entrances to the light. The right and left side have a stop sign and the middle has the right of way. These lanes lead to three exit lanes the is controlled by a stop light. The right lane was backed all the way up.
A young man from Illinois decides he is going to pull into the right lane in front of me. I blew my horn, but then he just stops in the middle of the road blocking everyone. What has become of our country when people act this rude.
So I pull around him and go into the oncoming traffic lane for a second, then get next to him and put down my wife’s window. I am not proud of my actions, but I am a bit pissed off at this point in time so I say a few choice words to him and he has the audacity to just wave at me. If I had the space to park, I think I would have gotten into his car pushed him aside, moved his car and taken the keys and threw them so he could never find them. Are my actions justified, maybe in some ways, but before the eyes of the Lord I highly doubt it. Instead of doing that, I just went up to the light, turned left and went home.
I am still pissed off and I normally do not stay this mad for sol long. I am not sure I am mad at him or how he was raised that he or anyone thinks this kind of behavior is acceptable. It is not.
It comes down to entitlement. I have the right to pull over here and to block everyone else is the mentality of today’s society. People are not allowed to say no or you have done something wrong. I have no problem with that. I tell my children no and I tell companies they are wrong all the time.
Financially, I am thankful for that, because if managers in the business for which I consult would actually say no or hold people accountable for their actions, then they would change and I would be out of business. So to all of you companies who can’t say no to your employees or hold them accountable, I thank you.
This kind of behavior that we are experiencing across the country is getting out of hand. We have people killing over shoes or other material things, or breaking into houses because I deserve what they have worked hard for, or rioting and looting because hey you are not going to stop me with all the people around. All in the name of I have a right to this. No you do not, so stop.
Shame on you parents for not holding your children more accountable for their actions. I am so thankful that the Lord placed me with my parents, because I was help accountable and I have passed that down to my kids. They raised me that if I want something, no matter what it is, I have to work for it. That is the exact opposite of our country today and the government is to blame for this.
Shame on you parents for thinking that everyone deserves to have the exact same things in life and that it is ok to do what you want. You do not have the right, but you can go out and earn it. You cannot do what you want with out there being some kind of consequences.
I use to have the mentality that I have to give the exact same number of gifts to my children and the price has to be roughly equivalent. What I did not realize at that time, but did later, is that I was raising children who thought that everything should be equal all the time. That is not how God works and that is not how the world works. I changed, thank you Lord although not as fast as I should have, and I think my children are much better now than they would have been had I continued down that same path.
The only thing we all have is Gods love for us and we also have his wrath. We can all get salvation if we would seek Christ. Acknowledge that you are a sinner, that Christ shed His blood for you, that Christ died for your sins on the cross, that He is the son of God, and that on the third day he arose from the grave to ascend into heave to sit at the right hand of God.
I pray that you will turn from your ways and think about what you are doing before you do them. I pray that you take accountability for your actions and that you realize you are not entitled to anything just because. I pray that you seek Christ and become saved. In Jesus name I pray for these things, Amen.