Arthur Ashe

Do you remember Arthur Ashe or have you heard about him? He was a black tennis star. Quite good and popular. On February 6, 1993, at approximately 3:13 p.m. Arthur Ashe died by homocide. It was death by lethal injection. The fatal dose was "innocently" administered by a health care professional. Though it was given ten years earlier, and thus was a slow acting poison, it was just as deadly as 10 cc's of Cobra venom. Don't you think it a bit strange that if he had been injected with Cobra venom we would all be up in arms, screaming for his killer to be brought to justice? Because he was killed by the AIDS virus, however, we sew his killer's name into a quilt, honor him, and tell him, our children, and the rest of the world, "it's all right." Don't you think that's odd?

It's amazing to me that we have groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) fighting to send drunks who kill, with motor vehicles, to jail. These people are angry, and they should be. They are doing all they can to keep those killers off the roads. They have forced goverment to respond with tougher laws, and stiffer sentences for those who break the law. At the same time, we have "superstars" holding benefits to raise money to fight a disease that is TOTALLY preventable, and COMPLETELY the fault of the one struck with it (with the exception of those who received it accidently, such as by blood transfusion, as did Arthur Ashe, or from dental equipment that was not properly cleaned, or those who were born with it because their mother had it). And those same "superstars" honor the one's struck with the disease, in spite of the fact that they have it because of their lust and immorality. In addition, many of those who have AIDS pass it on to others, condemning them to an agonizing death. And how does the world react? We give five minute standing ovations! We applaud and cheer. We buy their books, and pay them money to come and tell us all about it.

What's wrong with us? Where did common sense go? Is there no such thing as right and wrong anymore? If not, who changed the rules? When will we wake up and realize that whether we are considering an individual or a nation it is still true - We reap what we sow. Though we hate to hear God speaking to us, He said something about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. The children of Israel had lapsed into idolatry and forgetfulness of anything righteous. They were condoning sin and enjoying every aspect of it. The wicked were not punished but rewarded, as is happening in the U.S. today. They were sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.

Do we honestly believe we can continue in this moral decline and not reap a harvest of destruction for our nation? Look around. It's easy to see that the foundations of our society are crumbling beneath us. Listen. Can you hear it? It sounds like distant thunder. Is that the wind picking up?