Bondage

bondage

noun

our own freedom is not so gratifying when we must look upon the bondage of others: slavery, enslavement, servitude, subjugation, subjection, oppression, domination, exploitation, persecution; enthrallment, thraldom; historical serfdom, vassalage. ANTONYMS liberty.

What comes to mind when you hear the word bondage? Slavery, chains, human trafficking? Selfies?

Reading the daily headlines in Drudge makes it clear that evil has just about covered all the bases and infiltrated nearly every aspect of life on earth now. We were warned that it would get to this point so we shouldn’t be shocked to see it happening right before our eyes. Good is seen as bad and bad is celebrated and even honored as good. You know you live in a narcissistic world when everyone around you is obsessed with those who are obsessed with themselves. And it is narcissism, or love of self, that is the engine that moves the bus. The irony is that the more self-love there is, the more self-love spreads, which seems contradictory some how unless you think of it as being more like a deadly virus. 

Most of the social media that has sucked in millions of people like a vacuum is specific to self-promotion. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and a dozen others do nothing but fuel the self-love generation’s appetite for more ways to focus on self.  Spend hours a day on these sites under the guise of “sharing” and thus it is effectively normalized.

And this is my very sad point. ALL ABOUT ME is the new normal. In other words, bondage is the new normal. Bondage is slavery but not just chains and human trafficking anymore. Bondage in small as well as big things is a diabolical strategy and suggests that evil has pulled out the stops in its last desperate effort to overcome and vanquish good once and for all.  Spiritual death by a thousand small cuts is far more effective than simply lurking in the dark waiting to ambush. And so bondage to addictions of any kind is the simplest, most effective way to keep souls distracted and blind. How diabolical! To make matters worse, these distractions/obsessions can take any of a multitude of forms, some sound really good and are more subtle than others:

perfectionism

physical appearance/narcissism

obsessive, perverted sexual desire

anything that causes addiction: drugs, video games, food, alcohol, gambling, sports, fashion, internet, social media

religious spirit/religious habits

any destructive habit

Any destructive habit. Think about that. Why would we want to do anything that leads to self-destruction? 

Some days I wonder if it wouldn’t be better if I stopped reading or watching news. That way I wouldn’t have to acknowledge what is so abundantly clear–as bad as things have been in the past, even during Noah’s time, has there ever been a more reprobate era such as this?

The question is begged: how much worse can/will it get before it gets better? 

For Him,

Meema

 (1 Corinthians 6:17) But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.  (6:18) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.  (6:19) Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;  (6:20) for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.           

(Matthew 24:10) And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.  (24:11) And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.  (24:12) And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.  (24:13) But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.