God Knows What Is, Is - By: vlcarticle

While I was in elementary school, our school had three reading sections. Group one used a yellow reader; group two a red reader. The third group the less advanced readers) read out of the green reader. In second grade, where there once had been a third group, there now were the Blue Jays. I do not know if it felt better to go up when the Blue Jays were called. Everyone still realized they were the bottom group by seeing who was in the group and by listening to them read out loud. They could not read any more improved, but they were no longer in the third group. They were now Blue Jays.

Then janitors transformed into custodians, and custodians gave way to sanitation engineers. I think they are back to custodians. Teachers aids transformed to teachers assistance and secretaries lost their jobs to become administrative assistances. We decided that the title Miss may seem demeaning because it announced to the world that she was single, although Mr. gave no such information about a man. So we substituted Ms. for all ladies, but it somehow did not catch on for married ladies. So Miss is now in some circles Ms. It appears to me that all is absent were two letters (is) and the determination of if this is important depends on what your definition of is - is.

We as a society decided that it is not proper to keep people in mental institutions. So we closed the institutions and we now call many of these same people as homeless.

The Lord makes His request very clear when it is regarding His command regarding the widows and orphans. But we do not have an orphan problem. We negotiated the orphan problem. Someone saw all the orphans and renamed them foster care kids. If there were orphans it would be the churches responsibility out of necessary obedience, to embrace them. But what orphans? When was the last time you saw an orphanage?

The various ways that we conquer (hide) the ills of communities with language goes on and on. I am sure you have considered a few as you read. But my point is solely this. God gave the orphan to His Church, to love and care for. Changing the name does not change the command, and; although we can fool oneslef and each other, we cannot, and are not, fooling God. God knows that what is – is – no matter what we call it.

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About the Author

John Cragg is the director of Long Island Youth mentoring. You can learn more about this important Christian youth mentoring program for at risk kids at http://ChristianMentor.com.

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