9 "Let heavier work be laid on them; then they will labor at it and pay no attention to deceptive words.”(Exodus 5:9)
How do you keep people from thinking too much? Keep them busy apparently. I know when I have too much to do I don't have as much time to pay attention to all the political articles and other distractions. Of course I like what I do so it isn't the end of the world for me.
But what if you don't like what you are doing? What if you are so exhausted that perhaps anything that is said that gives you a ray of hope you suddenly pay attention. Words have a way of empowering those who are or who feel oppressed. Sometimes those words might be "deceptive." People being promised something that is not real. But there is also the reality that oppressors call deceptive what is in reality liberating.
We live in a whirlwind of information, some of it important, some not so much. There are things that we should pay attention to but get distracted or are just too tired to be bothered. But those are often the things that we should pay attention to and not be deceived by some smokescreen.
Blessings,
Ed
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