{"id":12588,"date":"2025-07-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12588"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:32:54","slug":"armaments-and-ordinances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12588","title":{"rendered":"Armaments and Ordinances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blow the Enemy Sky-high<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Friday, July 11, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving Holes In the Fabric Of Life.<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Life is Fragile,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and Home is as Well …<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

even if it\u2019s more than tarps.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 119:52<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I think of your ordinances from of old, I take comfort, O Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 Corinthians 5:1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace for Today –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh so many have taken, do take and will always take comfort in human ordinances, for with their power they can blow their enemies into oblivion, and who does not (at least in passing) wish to do that to those infuriating [deleted expletive] irritants (meaning one\u2019s enemies.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet God provides a different kind of ordinance, one that guides one to live well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are harder to trust and take comfort in, for they ask self sacrifice from us, and unconditional love for our enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The upside is they do not put holes into the fabric of life. Instead they heal what is broken, and offer life to the downtrodden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And<\/p>\n\n\n\n

when our enemies use their destructive human ordinances to blow our homes sky-high, then God still has a home waiting for us,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and God will welcome us home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blow the Enemy Sky-high Friday, July 11, 2025 Leaving Holes In the Fabric Of Life. Life is Fragile, and Home is as Well … even if it\u2019s more than tarps. Psalm 119:52 When I think of your ordinances from of old, I take comfort, O Lord. . 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if … Continue reading “Armaments and Ordinances”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poverty-homelessness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588","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=12588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12597,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions\/12597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}