day no. 16,577: like people, like priest

Hosea 4:9-10

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

As goes the shepherd, so goes the flock. Culture reflects its cultus. Worldviews are our worship. 

"The pulpit leads the world.” — Herman Melville

We all walk by faith, only for some, their sight is their faith and their pulpit is their private opinion. But someone's preaching is present everywhere. There is no escape from exegesis. Everywhere we look, the world is reading and remonstrating against something.

Convictions drive our considerations and we do what we believe. We are pragmatists at heart. He act in keeping with our priorities. Our theology is manifested in the things we do. Our worship leaks into everything we own. Our private worlds are all watered by our worship which then floods the public sphere. Everything is soaked in worship. The flood of faith has never receded like Noah's. It covers the world and one day, Christ the King will be the only wet the world will know.

Habakkuk 2:14

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Those who have not heeded to the Lord will be barren in their bedrooms and starve to death in their hording. For all their sex, they are childless and for all their gorging, they are still hungry. They never get any of the one or enough of the other. Their perversions cannot produce life and their decadence cannot create livelihood. Those who worship their bellies go hungry and those who worship their orgasms go without descendants. The one endures a famine of satisfaction and the other drowns in a flood of futility.