Today we are faced with death, violence, war, poverty, and tragedy on a daily basis. What popular video game these days doesn't involve death, war or violence?! How many times have you past a homeless person while you are driving somewhere? When is there ever a day when the news does not report a horrible tragedy. All these things are horrible, heart wrenching, life changing forever type of events. Yet we are faced with them everyday and have become numb to them.
Death doesn't seem like a big deal because last night you killed 20 people playing your video game.
Hearing about horrible violence on the news doesn't break your heart now that you have seen all those violent and horror movies.
You don't see poverty as a very serious problem. The fact that over 17% of children in Tarrant County live "in poverty" doesn't make your heart sink.
We are so numb to the serious chaos that we live in. We have poisoned, numbed our brains with all the junk we put into it that we so often overlook the real problems because we DONT EVEN NOTICE THEM! I just wonder...why doesn't our heart break when we see a report of a violent crime on the news? Why doesn't the mere statistics of poverty make us want to jump off our couches and help? It saddens me that these real, serious problems in our world rarely budge us, that we are so numb to these things because of all the junk we place in our heads.
One of my favorite lines in a song is "Break my heart [Lord] for what breaks yours" and that is my prayer for us all. That we stop being numb and simply overlooking the serious problems of our chaotic world and that God gives us the desire to do something about it.
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