Help Me God, I'm Confused Series

8-26-13 (Revised 10-9-2022)

Help Me God, I'm Confused

I Timothy 2:1-4

“It ain’t over till its over.” You know who said that? Yogi Berra. That line makes sense. But most of the things he said, make you scratch your head. Yogi was known as the master of confusion and double speak having said things like:

This is like déjà vu all over again.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going because you might not get there.

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

Baseball is 90% mental – The other half is physical.

A nickel isn’t worth a dime today.

It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking to much.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

If the fans don’t come out to the park, you can't stop them.

If ain't the heat; it’s the humility.

You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

I didn’t really say everything I said.

Yogi was not the only person to get confused. This world can be confusing. An internet forward a while back (adapted here) made the following observations that demonstrate the confusion of our current culture and political climate:

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally ...you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If the only school curriculum allowed to explain how we got here is evolution, but the government stops a $15 million construction project to keep a rare spider from evolving to extinction ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If children are forcibly removed from parents who discipline them with spankings while children of addicts are left in filth and drug infested “homes”... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gave 20 F-16 fighter jets to crazy leaders in Egypt ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with government checks, subsidized housing and free cell phones ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can’t find work ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA, but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote who runs the government ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more "safe" according to the government ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

Such actions are very confusing. When you consider the moral underpinnings of our country's founding, and the biblical basis for the laws that govern this land, we can only shake our head at the kinds of legal and moral decisions that are made today by people in authority.

The administration in Washington D.C. continues to put policies in place that are very confusing. A while back there was an order that military chaplains were not allowed to pray in the name of Jesus.

And soldiers in the U.S. Military were told in a training briefing that evangelical Christians are the No. 1 extremist threat to America – ahead of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, KKK, Nation of Islam, al-Qaida, Hamas and others.

That briefing, which was given to an Army reserve unit in Pennsylvania, came from a U.S. Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief titled “Extremism and Extremist Organizations.”