Sheeple

Isaiah said, "We all like sheep have gone astray..." (Isa 53:6a), which doesn't mean that we have made a thoughtful decision as to where we are going or why we are going there but rather that we are blindly following others as they go off the reservation or over the cliff.

The passage reminded me again of what I've been seeing in Ferguson and other cities around the country where protesters, rioter and looters are following after one another like dumb sheep, hence the term, "sheeple."  They have no clue what is really going on, how they are being used to advance an agenda of seperation of the races to ensure that certain people remain in a position of power over them.

These sheeple don't have any notion of what really happend, that it had nothing to do with a class struggle between black and white, that it does not reflect a reality that is happening on our streets daily.  Their protest, the pretense for injustice that white cops are out there hunting for black men to shoot and kill is simply not true.

In 2012, according to the CDC, in a country of 320 million people, 123 black men were shot and killed by cops.  In the same year, 326 white men were killed by cops.  The fact is that 93 % of black men are killed by black men.  By the way, most white men are killed by white men.  It seems that the struggle is not between the races but within the races and not between cops and the "communities of color" as suggested by our president, but in communites where criminals live.

Sheeple - is there any hope for them?  Yes, but not from the democratic leadership, politicians in general or the race-baiting Al Sharptons of the world.  The hope for sheeple is found only in the Shepherd of our souls, Jesus Christ, who "...each of us has turned to our own way; ad the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isa 53:6b).

Jesus is the answer and prayer for the sheeples of our country and the world (don't have space to talk about the Islamist fanatics around the globe).  And we, who have returned to the Shepherd's flock, need to be in prayer for these hapless masses of sheeple who are being blindly led to the slaughter.

In all of this turmoil, let us drop to our knees instead of rushing to condemn and let us raise our voices to the heavens instead of railing against the tide.  Do you remember what Jesus said about the sheeple who were responsible for crucifying him?  He prayed to God above, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34).  Oh, they knew they were clamouring for his death but they did not know they were being used or who was pulling the strings.

As his disciples, we must do not less than ask the Father to forgive them and seek their return to the pasture of the Shepherd.  Christians let us get down on our knees asking God to lift these people and this country up.  Jus' Sayn.