{"id":10251,"date":"2023-03-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10251"},"modified":"2023-03-06T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:02:51","slug":"word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10251","title":{"rendered":"Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To the Wise and the Perverse<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, March 8, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Living Simple,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off-the-grid, The Best Choice Of What\u2019s Left,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Makes Choices Clearer,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not Easier or More Pure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only God\u2019s Presence Saves Us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeremiah 22:29<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 10:27<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh that we might all see, hear, and follow God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended by a CBC economics writer I\u2019ve watched 3 seasons of the HBO series \u201cSuccession\u201d. It\u2019s horrible. Or more frightening it\u2019s an honest portrayal of capitalism today, in all it\u2019s corruption, denigrations, and perversions at the highest and greediest levels. I would not recommend anyone suffer watching it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are better things to occupy one\u2019s time and mind on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Yellowstone, which portrayed an abusive, violent, and corrupt life of cattle ranching and all around it in Montana, Succession uses the wealthiest, selfish, greediest levels of corporate owners as the setting to display murder, perverse sex, alcohol and drug use and addition, and abuse of all kinds. Even the \u2018best\u2019 of characters, of course \u2018pure\u2019 mid-westerners from Minnesota, play out unbelievable abuse against other people, to no one\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first one can pretend anyway that these things do not really happen. Then the onslaught of repetition wears down one\u2019s defences and one capitulates: this is how people actually live. There is some basis in reality that is used to portray these pathetic \u2018hero\u2019 characters, events, and disasters of humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One must think: what has the world come to, anyway?!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which makes one remember the same selfishness, greed, and perversions reported about other \u2018empires\u2019, like Rome and even King David.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it about humans that when we are blessed with privilege, means, and opportunity we use it to destroy other people and any goodness that might be in us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering this about other times and most about our own, can we hear more clearly the petition: O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s Word stands in stark contrast: Jesus comes as God most privileged, and sets that all aside to live as one of us, one who sacrifices everything of himself to pay for our unending sins, so that we might be free of them and live as God\u2019s own children. So that we might be blessed to be blessings to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Into the pathetic, perverse, and violent state of our dark world God\u2019s Word comes to us. God sends us out to share that Word with all people: What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, which will we be and do? Our own small versions of selfishness, greed and perversion that is everywhere and in every time so rampant? Or the life-renewing proclaimers of God\u2019s Word of Grace for all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the Wise and the Perverse Wednesday, March 8, 2023 Living Simple, Off-the-grid, The Best Choice Of What\u2019s Left, Makes Choices Clearer, Not Easier or More Pure. Only God\u2019s Presence Saves Us. Jeremiah 22:29 O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord! Matthew 10:27 What I say to you in the dark, tell … Continue reading “Word”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,86,62,34,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-hope","category-injustice","category-sacramental-mystic","category-trees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10257,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions\/10257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}