Daily Verse | Job 34:21
“His eyes are on the ways of men; he sees their every step.”

Monday’s Reading: Job 35-37

Monday and off we go into a new week.

Over the weekend I upgraded my phone, so that may have had something to do with what I’m going to share with you this morning. I have a call blocker on my phone that silences calls that it determines are solicitations or nuisance calls. Most of the time, the call is shown as the number with a notation underneath that says where it originated from (i.e. Mableton, GA) or it is labeled “unknown,” which I think means the blocker can’t determine from where the call originated.

I’ve been getting a lot of (202) area code calls, which are from Washington, DC. Since they are silenced and none leave a message, I don’t know who is calling, but my guess it is the RNC trying to hit me up for a donation. All of those calls are labeled the same way, with the phone number and the notation that it originated in Washington, DC.

After I got my new phone set up, I got a notification of a call, but it didn’t follow the previous pattern. Instead, it showed me this:

“Scam Likely” — from Washington, DC. I almost bust my gut laughing.

Is that not the truth? If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that Washington, DC is nothing but a scam.

• We need to pass the bill to find out what’s in the bill.
• Hillary Clinton was “extremely careless” but not criminal in running her government emails through a private email server.
• Trump is a Russian asset. Trump is a racist. Trump cheated on his taxes.
• We need two weeks to flatten the curve.
• The vaccines are safe.
• Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation.
• Joe Biden received the largest number of votes ever in American history.
• The withdrawal in Afghanistan was carefully planned.
• Inflation will only be transitory.
• Current gas prices are because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

That little bit of serendipity on my phone summed up Washington in two words that I couldn’t have come up with in days of trying. It’s now my go-to phrase.

When it comes to anything in Washington, DC, these days, we should all pause a moment and think, “Scam Likely.”