I was gonna go to work but then I.....

Why I didn't go to class , or work ,or clean my room .....
"Because I got High"
A direct quote from the" scene" section of the Tulsa world 3/26/09
This is the title to a Grammy award nominated song (rap genre).
No doubt popular because of the truth of the refrain in so many young( and not so young) lives.
Why would I include this in this blogg? Because it is so telling of a generation who is unfit to lead because it is unwilling to follow.
This anti-estabishment, trust no-one, but serve self because of entitlment due does not recognize nor appreciate the sacrifice it takes to enjoy life, liberty and pursuit of happiness purchased by patriots willing to risk it all.
Make that patriarchs....Abraham ...Moses...the prophets.
It was the prophet Isaiah who recognized and warned of this deficet in charachter and leadership around 600 b.c. as Judgement from God results in total anarchy and makes these grave predictions in chapter 3
vs.5
" People will opress each other....
The young will rise up against the old,
The base against the honorable.
vs. 6
"A man will seize one of his brothers at his fathers home and say,
"you have a cloak , you be our leader;
take charge of this heap of ruins"
(Sound like our current state of confusion and lack of direction and leadership ?)
vs.7
But in that day he will cry out,
"I have no remedy.
I have no food or clothing in my house;
do not make me the leader of the people."
"Shepherds who feed only themselves " Jude calls them in vs 12 of his small book on "Truth Drifters" (sounds like corporate and political leaders)
or in Isaiah 56 vs 11 " They are shepherds who lack understanding"
No wonder it seems there is no end to this world gone crazy and an increasing apathy and corrupt culture.
But wait, Isaiah has a new song
Chapter 40 vs 28-31:
28Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even the youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength,
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.