Why are there so many things in life that don’t make any sense? Good question, huh? I guess I’m a stickler for things adding up, or just being the way they should be. How do we make an accurate analysis of these things and how do we make sense of them?
I’m a casual observer of a lot of daily events. I pay attention to and analyze everything from the somewhat confusing to the truly perplexing. This life is full of them and if I really spent too much time thinking about them it could get depressing. However, I do feel they warrant some exposure in the sense of calling into question some everyday things we have come to just take for granted.
One thing I don’t understand is our entire credit rating system. If I want to take out a loan from my bank or get a car loan at a dealership they need to look up my credit history. They need to determine if I qualify or what my interest rate will be. That credit history is based on my history of borrowing money. But say, I don’t have much of a credit history because I don’t like to borrow money and prefer to pay cash when possible. Therefore, I’m a poor credit risk because of my lack of credit history. In other words, I can’t borrow much money because I don’t have a history of borrowing money. How much sense does that make? I understand they want to see my history and capability of paying back a loan. But what about my history of paying all my other bills on time? And why wouldn’t the fact that I don’t have a history of borrowing money make me a better credit risk? I don’t know. I just think some things are backwards.
There are other things, though, that just involve, at best, conflict of interest and, at worst, outright corruption. For instance, the Governor of New Jersey hiring his own “independent” investigator to look for evidence of corruption in a political scandal. The investigator came away with no evidence of wrong-doing by the Governor. Was that a surprise? That’s not to say he’s definitely guilty, but it’s certainly not conclusive for the purposes of proving innocence, is it?
I was recently reading a story about the executives at Google and their close relationship with the White House. It appears the FTC was close to embarking on an investigation into the company’s search engine business. They were prepared to bring an anti-trust lawsuit against the internet giant. It would have been the highest profile anti-trust lawsuit since the one involving Microsoft in the late nineties. The FTC’s competition staff had determined that the company had used anti-competitive tactics and abused monopoly power that ended up harming users and internet rivals. FTC commissioners, however, voted to end the investigation into the company. There were apparently a number of visits with Google, the FTC and the White House between the staff recommendation and the FTC commissioner’s vote. In fact, since the beginning of the administration, Google employees have visited the White House a total of 230 times. That number of visits certainly gives the opportunity for influence.
Am I condemning people like this Governor, or this company? No, I have no room to speak as to their innocence or guilt. And if they are guilty, I am certainly not condoning that of which they are accused. But what I am trying to illustrate is that their methods or tactics don’t make any sense. Even assuming they cared about conducting their business with the utmost of integrity, they certainly don’t care about the appearance of it. So if guilty, they don’t seem to even care. But if innocent, they certainly aren’t helping themselves in even the appearance of it.
The thing we always need to remember is that we live in a fallen world. The things we often observe in life aren’t the way things should be, nor are they the way things were designed to be. God created things the way He wanted them to be from the beginning. But then sin entered the world at the Fall, in the Garden, and corrupted everything. So if we often see things that don’t make sense, this is usually why. Knowing this, another thing I have learned is that if we interpret this world according to this world we will be confused. But if we interpret this world according to the Word it will start to make sense. The Bible exposes sin for what it is. It describes why someone acted the way they did. It even explains our own actions. Making sure we view things from the light of God’s Word will give us the right perspective.
AV 1Thessalonians 5:22: “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” This is a clear instruction to us to not only do what’s right, but to make sure we are conducting our lives in the most transparent of ways. The idea is that, even if I’m not engaged in wrongdoing, I certainly don’t want to appear to be. This can save a person a lot of unneeded problems. It also is an admonishment for us to stay as far away from sin as possible.
AV Mark 7:21: “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,” Hear we get a clear illustration of where sin originates. It starts in our hearts when we allow it to be planted and then grow until it becomes an outward expression of that thing. This is why we need to be so careful in paying attention to our hearts. These things get started and grow sometimes without us realizing it. Regular prayer time and talking to God can reveal these things to us, and God is faithful to help us in these things.
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AV James 1:15: “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” This takes us one further. Once that sinful desire in our heart is brought to fruition we engage in a sinful act. Without intervention, we are eventually brought to a full end of destruction manifested in our lives, both spiritually and physically.
AV Psalms 118:8: “[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.” One of the main ideas the daily happenings in this world illustrates for us is our need to put our confidence in God and not people. We need to know He is our sure foundation. All other ground is sinking sand.
AV 1 Corinthians 4:5: “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.” Also important is our need to not cast judgements on people, or even situations, in the here and now. These things will all be sorted out in time, at the end, when the Lord returns. He will make the final judgment and His judgment will be just.
AV 1Thessalonians 5:22: “Abstain from all appearance of evil.”
AV Mark 7:21: “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,”
AV James 1:15: “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”
AV Psalms 118:8: “[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.”
AV 1 Corinthians 4:5: “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.”