Disclosed secrets
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Editor,
Watching the evening news is a family tradition passed down from our parents and grandparents, going back to that time when the radio required a battery to light the tubes and activate the sounds. Television has replaced the radio and electricity has provided the energy needed to produce the audio and a brilliant picture of the evening news.
Not much has changed in all the years regarding the content that we hear from the desk of the news “anchor;” especially these last few weeks as private conversations, and secret memorandums of international intrigue are being exposed to the eyes and ears of commoners. What a revelation of the human experience; on the one hand publicly expressing congeniality and confidence, while privately speaking disdaining words of distrust and disgust. We’re two-faced; we speak with forked tongues, telling lies while pretending honesty. The greatest failure of all would be for commoners, like us, to point the finger, which all Pharisees are prone to do, at “Washington” and proclaim ourselves innocent of such sinful behavior. Let’s not fool ourselves; our marriages, our parenting, our relationships at the office and with neighbors, even among some who relish being identified as “a Christian;” we’re all guilty; we are a sinful people who need a Savior.
We need someone to change our hearts. That’s what Christmas is all about. Jesus came to change us from the inside out, to make us clean and new on the inside, “This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and I’m the worst of them all” (1 Timothy 1:15 New Living Translation). Paul wrote this, “What counts (with God) is whether we have been transformed into a new creation” (Galatians 6:15b NLT). Again, Paul writes to the Corinthians, “…anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun” 2 Corinthians 5:17b NLT).
The evening news won’t change significantly until we change. I’m for it. I want Jesus to forgive all my secret sins, all the duplicity, all the hypocrisy, my proclivity to break His commandments. I’m sure you do too. This Christmas let’s ask Jesus to change our hearts.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
