Fables could problem the reality, however the reality will
finally reveal all types of false fable perceptions.
Enter the Huge Unhealthy Wolf. The primary character of sure fables
– Little Crimson Using Hood and the The Three Little Pigs. He’s the
epitome of self-affirmed Significance. Regardless of his outer look, his nature
is a combination of greediness, pomposity, dominance over others, self-affirmed
intelligence, false comprehension of energy and an insatiable want to be
feared by, and to regulate the actions and conduct of others – all to his
self-focused satisfaction.
The “Huge Unhealthy Wolf syndrome” transcends fairy tales and
expresses itself each day within the lives of human beings! However now, the “Huge Unhealthy Wolf syndrome” is being
realized in actual time on the American stage.
The curtains have opened, and Act 1 has begun. The scene
reveals the Huge Unhealthy Wolf “huffing and puffing” at a “straw home.” Inside that
“straw home” is a “little pig,” who really represents a big section of
society who’ve constructed their life on the essential requirements and chosen luxuries
of life. They’re the common 8 to 4, 9 to five employees. They cowl an unlimited vary
of occupations: medical companies, social service, educators, manufacturing facility employees,
contractors, workplace employees, authorized employees, frequent laborers, dwelling care employees …
the record goes on and on.
There he stands, the Huge Unhealthy Wolf “huffing and puffing” at
their fundamental sources of life. Their jobs, their fundamental job securities, their
properties, their private financial savings and investments, their household wants, their
private and group desires and plans for the long run. The partitions of all of these
considerations are being shaken by the forceful, indiscriminate and harmful
forces and influence of the Huge Unhealthy Wolf’s “huffing and puffing.” His revised
stipulations, laws and standards for his or her continuation in dwelling and
even present within the area of the Huge Unhealthy Wolf’s perceived “area.”
For much too many, these partitions have already fallen. For a lot of
others, their private and household futures are clinging to weakened programs of
help and hope. Many is not going to survive the insurmountable influence of the Huge
Unhealthy Wolf’s “huffing and puffing” upon their as soon as creating and evolving
efforts to attain the “American Dream.” Sure ones have even been forbidden
to actually have a home to be “blown down.”
For too many others, the Huge Unhealthy Wolf has already “fattened”
himself on them and what little that they had left behind.
Then begins Act 2 of the “Huge Unhealthy Wolf syndrome.” Happily,
a few of these “little piggies” have been capable of “escape” to the homes of
kin and associates who’ve transitioned from “straw homes” to “stick properties.”
In these new “stick properties,” these “little piggies” have been ready strengthen
their dwelling circumstances. Employment alternative enhancements, monetary
investments, academic developments, social group expansions, holidays,
cruises and journey will increase – all a few of the advantages of “stick properties” dwelling.
However even to this group, the Huge Unhealthy Wolf comes “huffing and
puffing” upon their “stick properties.” Bogarting and bluffing his will and his manner
on these much less ready to withstand. Mortgage will increase, revenue tax will increase, property
tax will increase, private worker/employees salaries and advantages. “Stick homes”
have their very own built-in obligations.
However the Huge Unhealthy Wolf’s “huffing and puffing” on the “stick
homes” doesn’t finish there. The “Huge Unhealthy Wolf syndrome” feeds on itself! The
extra I get, the extra I need. The “greater, the extra highly effective, the extra essential
I really feel and/or understand myself to be, the extra I need others to “understand” me to
be.
So, I “huff and puff” extra. I “huff and puff” extra in any respect of
the opposite “stick homes” and the contributing elements on which they stand. The commerce!
The commerce prices! The transportation bills! The sources for his or her existence!
No matter helps these “stick homes” to exist and stand, the Huge Unhealthy Wolf “huffs
and puffs” at them till they fall down, too. And no matter doesn’t “escape,” he
devours. He fattens himself all of the extra.
Averice/greed and a disdain for different individuals and rules
that are “not such as you and yours” are a few of the motivating contributors to
the “Huge Unhealthy Wolf syndrome.” I’m higher than you. You might be lower than me. Subsequently,
you both “serve, cater to, undergo” me and my needs for all times. In any other case, I
will “huff and puff and blow your home down.”
As if all of this weren’t sufficient, Act 3 of the “Huge Unhealthy
Wolf syndrome” begins. Within the face of “Huge Unhealthy Wolves” and the “Huge Unhealthy Wolf
syndrome,” what grow to be the answer for the “little piggies” of life?
Effectively, just like the devastated “little piggies” in that previous
fable, there is a home to which to run. That third “little piggy” noticed
match to construct his home of “stone.” This “stone home” was not constructed on
comfort, not of necessity. It was not constructed on financial, nor ego-tripping
rules, nor values. It was constructed on and for long-lasting functions. The blueprints
for this home are everlasting and never temporal.
The “Huge Unhealthy Wolf syndrome” is private and temporal. It
feeds off of itself, but it’s dependent upon others who avail themselves to
its false rules. However there’s a substance towards which no Huge Unhealthy Wolf’s
“huffing and puffing” can overcome.
That substance is the Phrase of God. Like Daniel’s “stone hewn
out of the mountain,” and the “stone which the builders rejected,” and the “foundational
stone” for the church, the phrase of God shall stand endlessly.
God’s Phrase shall face up to each effort of spiritually
misguided Males and Beast (Devil – the Huge Unhealthy Wolf) who walks the face of this earth.
Thank God for the sensible “Little Piggies” who faithfully stand
on God’s phrase, and construct their each day life rules, and their dwelling locations
on God’s Phrase.
“Huff and Puff” all you need, Huge Unhealthy Wolf/”wolfeites,”
whomever you might be and could also be, however none of your “huffing and puffing” can
overcome the temporal and everlasting stone-hard reality of God’s holy phrase.
Epilogue: This fable ends with the Huge Unhealthy Wolf being killed
attempting to sneak down the chimney of that stone home, solely to land into an enormous
pot of boiling water. Oh, the irony. Biblically, the satanic “Huge Unhealthy Wolf” is
doomed to everlasting destruction within the lake of fireplace. Beware, all you Huge Unhealthy
Wolves. You will reap what you sow!
Pastor Samuel W. Hale Jr. is the previous pastor of Zion
Missionary Baptist Church and president of J.L. Powell Mission Ministries.
