Will Rescue Us?
Monday, September 16, 2024
And The Skies Run Red With Their Blood,
As God Lets Evil
Take Itself To It’s Own Bloody Death?
Isaiah 50:7
The Lord God helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame
Matthew 14:30
But when he noticed the strong wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, ‘Lord, save me!’
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Words of Grace For Today
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The OT reading for this Sunday Jeremiah 11:18-20 overlaps in theme with this verse:
It was the Lord who made it known to me, and I knew;
then you showed me their evil deeds.
But I was like a gentle lamb
led to the slaughter.
And I did not know it was against me
that they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
let us cut him off from the land of the living,
so that his name will no longer be remembered!”
But you, O Lord of hosts, who judge righteously,
who try the heart and the mind,
let me see your retribution upon them,
for to you I have committed my cause.
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So it is time to ask:
And who is out to get you?
By guile and deceit
in secret
and hidden ways
so that those uninitiated to such devious ways will not see or suspect or ever know
of the evil that is worked against you?
Oh, you say, there is no such effort made against me.
But then how would you know?
And what is all this about polarization of peoples, infiltration of social media to effect election outcomes, hate created fear motivating voters, world domination by fascist dictators, war hungry leaders hiding in war their failing support at home, the economy played for the benefit of the already rich to get richer and the already poor to get poorer (if there is such a thing for many) and for the middle class to sink, sink, sink closer to poverty?
Are these not already a few powerful manipulating what can be to send us closer to our deaths?
Are you paying attention?
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But God is with us. And we will see our enemies destroy themselves.