Coffee and Tea: On Winking the Other Eye

The confusion of the Woke Culture and the corruption poisoning the upcoming election and the Supreme Court nomination are facts that are slapping us in the face with the reality of the raw treachery that is in you and in me, and consequently in the other guy! One of the first things to develop in a child is the realization that he can “do” someone.

The Bible will not allow us to imagine that life is other than full of cunning and craft and deception. The “babe in the wood” idea does not hold—“I don’t know how he could do it!” 

The truths of the Bible force us to see things without the glamour of temperament or religion or conceit. To look at life as it is, and to think of it as it is, must make a man a pessimist. If we are not pessimistic, it is either because we are generally thick-headed and do not think, or because we have temperaments that are optimistic. 

We are seeing these facts played out on our streets, in the media, and in the halls of government. The treachery that the Bible speaks of is infiltrating all areas of our lives and destroying the foundation for a just and civil society. 

Critical Race Theory calls this treachery systemic oppression - oppression that is woven into the very fabric of our life on planet earth. In the spiritual domain it is identified as a revolt against God and His order of creation. There is:

- the oppression of tyranny

- the oppression of trade and commerce

- the oppression of idleness

- the oppression of aloneness

- the oppression of society

- the oppression of stubbornness

Not one of us has a single motive; the only One Who had a single motive was Jesus Christ, and the miracle of His Redemption is that He can put a single motive into any man. 

There is no cunning in the Sermon on the Mount. As long as we deal on the line of craft and cunning, Jesus Christ is no good to us. We can easily make a fool of goodness. The romance of the life of a disciple is not an external fascination but an inner martyrdom.

If we face things as they are, we shall find that true optimism comes from a source other than temperament. According to the Bible, it comes from applying God's Wisdom. 

To-day the woke culture is bothered over imagining and identifying oppressors and canceling culture as a way of dealing with treachery. All that does is promote more treachery. God's wisdom, however, faces facts as they are.

- Adapted from Oswald Chambers' In the Shade of His Hand