Hallelujah! And Mop My Floor!

» Posted by Rick Creasy on Oct 12, 2009 in Life, Spiritual | 3 comments

Beware of Sunday television.  As you know, I faithfully visit the the gym each day as soon as it opens for my physical workout.  I alternate running  3 miles a day or 2 miles depending on how much sleep I got the night before.  If you’ve ever ran on the treadmill  you know it can be boring.  Usually I can watch one of 4 overhead flat-screen TV’s which helps to pass time as I merrily gallop along.  As luck would have it this past Sunday, I found myself trapped to watch the channel which just happened to come up when the power button was pressed.  The remote control (up and down channel-er) was not working.  So on one TV I’m face to face  with a puffy eyed overweight tele-evangelist expounding not for 15 minutes, no, not for 30 minutes, but for a solid hour selling his wares.  On the other TV within my view was a 30 minute infomercial on some state- of- the- art mop that could clean floors instantly upon contact with grime and grease then rinse out good as new.  I honestly don’t know which was more distasteful or boring.  I’d have to say the most irritating of the 2 was the 1 hour infomercial on God (although his name was seldom mentioned.) Now don’t misunderstand me.  I’m a believer, I believe in prayer and miracles,  and I want God’s Kingdom to be advanced. But really.  For one hour I was encouraged (OK begged and harangued) to phone the 1-800 holy help line with any affliction that I or my ancestors might possess.  If I hadn’t been running on the treadmill, and afraid that I’d trip trying to dial into heaven’s gate, I would have called just to see  how much a new body would cost me.  The entire hour was filled with offers and descriptions of items ranging from new Bibles (with the preacher’s name on the spine of the book as if he had authored it), music CD’s, sermon CD’s, Larry Gatlin CD’s, books, bible maps, maps which could accurately interpret the entire book of Revelations, healing cloths,  and other memorabilia all in the name of Jesus. These commercials of course were interspersed with other clarion calls for me to send in seed offerings to keep the ministry (infomercial) trucking along. 

Pardon me for asking, but how much do you think air time for these TV infomercials for Jesus cost? Millions of dollars of course.  Think of how much money he could save (earn) just by cutting back to 1/2 hour of peddling instead of the full hour of QVC Lord.  I hope that some good will come to those who faithfully call in and so willingly offer up their MasterCard or VISA charge numbers.  The Bible does say that “His word will not return to Him void…” or in other words, if His Word is preached or broadcasted, it will perform and be fruitful to the work that He intends regardless of the dummy that’s talking.  Trouble is, I didn’t hear or see a single scripture being read or preached.  I could have missed something along the way because I did occasionally check out the mop commercial, so don’t take this as gospel and Lord knows I don’t want to judge.  I’m taking my iPod to the gym next Sunday.