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Be Aware

             For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. (Acts 17:23)

Sigh, this may be a rant as much as it is anything else. My hometown’s government has declared that June is “Immigrant Heritage Month.” Of course, it’s also LGBTQ+ Awareness Month. And mid-month, we’ll celebrate Juneteenth. If you do a little searching online, you'll find that the whole month and every day are filled with social agendas, many of which promote certain groups that some government official or organization has decided to promote to appear woke and in line with the times. We are supposed to spontaneously combust with curiosity and go find out about this group and worship, while those who established the day do nothing but pat themselves on the back. After all, they took a minute to make and post (or 30 seconds to share a post) to call for us to be aware of the group or cause. They’ve built digital altars and established holy days/weeks/months. Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Daniel, and Mordecai, if we refuse to bow or obey, we will be punished.

For all the supposed advances of society, we’re Ephesus – religious (with this collective or that as our gods), but ignorant of the very thing we’re supposed to worship. I suspect the ignorance is intentional and strategic, because if we bothered to look at what we’re supposed to be worshipping in any detail, we’d be less than impressed. 

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