The Bible on Trial

Word Games~

The latest social craze that has swept Twitter, and that has now been bought by the New York Times for millions of dollars, is the cute little word game WORDLE. It is a word guessing game that has captured the hearts and minds of millions of people world wide. The rules are simple and straight forward, and by all accounts addictive. It is fascinating to me that this is true in a society that spends very little of their free time reading anything. Reading anything worth while takes time and energy; doing WORDLE takes minutes, and is really more of a guessing game that doesn't require any high leve thought or analyisis. It's just fun.

So why am I writing about an innocuouse game while the world is exploding with a war in the Ukraine, and strife, unrest, and protests? The reason is that this game reflects the current mind set of a large portion of the population that is not directly affected by the socio-political unrest in specific places; people long for a means of escape from the chaos they see in the news or that they live with everyday, and wish to go to a place that is innocent and peaceful, a place that requires no hard decisions, no planning ahead for emergencies, no trying to decipher what a politician or a religious leader is trying to get them to believe.

The world is full of word games. These games affect the way people think and how they behave. The words from the MSM (main stream media) cause people to believe things that make them uncomforatble and worried. Politicians say words that try to make people feel that there is hope, when the people only see worry.

The answer (truly) is in the words that Jesus brought to this earth from His Father, and which He geve to His own eyewitness disciples. His words bring peace in the midst of the storm. His words bring do not bring chaos, they bring clarity and truth to a truth staved world.  Jesus does not play word games.