No farmer would ever hope for a poor harvest, but many people don’t seem to grasp that the same laws that govern agriculture and horticulture also apply to popular culture. What you sow, you reap.
It was rather amusing last week to hear the Minneapolis City Council discuss the remarkable rise in crime in their fair city. Violent crimes are escalating, calls to 911 are going unanswered, and citizens are complaining over a lack of police presence.
The amusement, of course, is not the crime, or the one hundred officers who have resigned from the department, but the council’s shock. After calling for the police and firemen to stand down, they allowed much of their city to be burned and looted, and then decided to defund and dismantle the police department.
Now they wonder why police are demoralized and unresponsive?
People will continue to flee Minneapolis, of course, along with Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Seattle, and anywhere else such policies have been embraced. There will be more chaos. Much more. You need not be a prophet to know this; you have only to understand that these things are merely the early, green shoots of folly’s coming bumper crop.
“For they sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.”
Hosea 8:7