A Thought for the Day – 027
Woes, sorrows, contentions, complaints and wounds,
and do not forget the redness of eyes. The vehicle that drives these
circumstances is said to be wine, but it is the absence of faith in God in
one’s heart; this is the root cause, Proverbs 23:26-35
Comments and challenges
I believe that the LORD has covered our land with a
cloud of His anger. The beauty of our land of the free is covered with a dire
and dreary fog because we have failed to remember that He is God. Like the
cloudy pillar that prevented Egypt from seeing a nation following His Light to
the promised land, so too our nation is cast down in His wrath.
Our strong military (yes it is still strong) is
limited because our national production is on furlough and we are brought down
to our knees; not for prayer, but for lack of people. Lost are our children,
they are lost to the violence of corrupted laws, they are lost to choice of
unprincipled men and women who now control their future. Satan has attacked our
young and is succeeding in his effort to destroy them.
How does all of this happen? God who stands against
us like an enemy (but is not) has bent His bow of judgment and released His
arrows of discipline and one by one our pillars of justice and righteousness in
the land are failing. Our constitutional way of the past is crumbling like old
and unprotected cement and there is a steady increase in public mourning and
lamentation. Lamentations 2:1-5
I see as I read in the Book of Lamentations a
pattern of discipline that parallels our land which Israel faced when that
nation failed to obey God. This is a Book in the Holy Bible that we do not like
to read, I think that we do not like to read it because it shows to us that God
requires obedience and accountability in order to live life under His care. Political
correctness removes God from society; therefore it is not politically correct
to use words like obedience and accountability so in the place of these words
we have “conformity and tolerance”
Who
is Joe Btfsplk? Well if you remember Lil Abner Yokum, you will remember
the world's worst jinx, he had a perpetually dark rain cloud over his head.
Instantaneous bad luck befell anyone unfortunate enough to be in his vicinity.
Though well-meaning and friendly, his reputation inevitably precedes him —
so Joe is a very lonely little man. He has an apparently unpronounceable name,
but creator Al Capp "pronounced" Btfsplk by simply blowing a
"raspberry," Joe's personal storm cloud became one of the most iconic
images in the strip.
Men
and women the days of ignoring our moment in time is gone. We are well behind
the “raspberry junction” of life. It is time for us to return to God. His
sanctuary is not abandon of people, people go to church. Preachers have
abandoned the Bible and the Word of God is no longer spoken. Churches today are
saturated with messages to make us feel good about ourselves. There is nothing
in anyone of us to feel good about, while Al Capp’s family of Yokums are
loveable and funny, we as a nation are nothing more than a pitiful bunch of
btfsplks. Too bad we have not grown up!
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