You Are Being Programmed!

I once read about the Eskimos … how they trap wolves. They actually use knives coated with blood that freezes on the blades. They then stake the knife with the handle vertically into the ground exposing the blades. Now wolves have a very keen sense of smell and they can smell blood from way off. The wolf will lick the iced blood on the knife and soon the taste of blood drives it into frenzy. As the bloodied ice melts on the knife like ice cream against your warm tongue, it exposes the sharp edges of the knife that eventually cuts into the tongue of the animal. Getting excited over its own warm blood as a result of the cut, the animal kept on licking against the knife until eventually it succumb to its own injuries and dies. It’s subtle but effective.

I want you to know … you are being programmed! It’s an ongoing process and like the wolves, you don’t even know what’s happening to you until the damage is done! Who’s the programmer? What is the process? What’s the outcome?
I look at people today and how technology is affecting our lives, sad to say there’s more cons than pros. While technology is supposed to make life a little easier for us, it has but become the source of more stress. It has brought about more problems that solutions to mankind and to our planet earth. Because computers works fast and technology is advancing at a gargantuan pace, there is a huge demand for us to catch up …. to move at a faster pace. As a result, people become significantly impatience, impersonal, short tempered, less caring. Our language, culture has been so significantly reshaped that many of us today … we have lost our roots, our very identity! Japan is a good example. Take a look at their youth!

I urge you to read the book of Revelation as often as you can. It’s a window into the future. Observe the populace, the nations, the physical earth. Then ask yourself, “How did we get to be in this state?”. Basically there is a “programmer” and there is a “process” … the devil and his cosmos (world system).

It will take me a thesis if I were to share my thoughts with you in these matters. But let me just state briefly here that we need to understand that on a daily basis, our lives are being influenced by our usual-taken-for-granted daily routines. Young kids with their video gadgets (like gameboys, PSP) is being programmed and shaped for violence in relation to the violent video games. They are becoming more and more insensitive to violence. Cell phones, Messenger, AOL, ICQ, JABBER, GOOGLE … all these communicative platforms exposes our youths and adults to a world of virtual friendships be it friends or foes. They have become very individualistic in nature as daily they spend time alone with their PC socializing via cyberspace.

But I’ve got good news! Thank God for His gift of the Church! Yup … we have this extended family. And as long as we understand and embrace this gift from God, we have safety, we have knowledge and “the gates of hell shall not prevail against His church”! I shall continue with this next week.