DISPATCHES
I'm reading a book right now about the Russian revolution and the year 1917 in Petrograd. Central to what I've read so far are the dispatches from foreign journalists back to their newspapers and magazines in their home countries. The word 'dispatches' sat very well with me when I read it as that's what I look upon many of these posts as....dispatches.....eye witness accounts so to speak....sent to others who because of time and circumstances view these things from afar. I've sent these posts back week after week and month after month and year after year to everyday Americans, detailing the unravelling conditions in our government and our society in general. The Russian autocracy, clad in their furs, feasting and travelling in their elegant automobiles and troikas, enjoyed their ballet and theater right up to the moment that their country collapsed.
The following comments on Noah Webster are from late last year while the post after it is from January of 2013.
"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character."
"If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted."
The two celebrities were bantering back and forth on television about language and one remarked that he heard it said that Noah Webster's last words were....."I am going to die......or I am about to die.......either is correct." I researched a bit Noah Webster's death and his actual words to a friend while death neared were..."I know in whom I have believed, and that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day."
The above quotations on electing principled men are obviously those of Noah Webster. We would have been far better off if we knew of his advice and heeded his words in the primaries. My take was that Donald Trump had entered the primaries essentially to build up the Trump brand. He probably hoped that he could be a spoiler but never expected his meteoric rise, nomination and generally election victory. He understood the issues that propelled him to the White House enough to build a campaign on them....but he did not understand the people who put him there....who live and breath the issues.
The problem was that conservatives didn't actually.... know whom they believed.....Donald Trump. We do now.....many of us. Finding ourselves in this predicament in these supremely dangerous times it would behoove us to concentrate on Noah Webster's words as death approached.....which were based on the Apostle's Paul's words....."...I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."...
America Unravelling....January 2013:
Charles Spurgeon wrote these words over a century ago, The yoke of affliction, disappointment, and excessive labor is by no means to be sought; but when the Lord lays it upon us in our youth it frequently develops a character which glorifies God and blesses the church. Come, my soul, bow thy neck; take up thy cross. It was good for thee when young, it will not harm thee now.
America is heading at breakneck speed in acquiring such a yoke. We are but a shell of what we were. Where the aroma of our freedom and liberty once wafted throughout the world it is now the stench of our culture that permeates much of the globe. There should be no surprise here for when a civilization becomes so prosperous that its economy is totally dependent on what its malls can sell, its influence for good becomes depleted in proportion to the disgust that is generated. We have become a seller to the world of that which makes it vomit. Given time, all these nations would have generated their own pollution on their own, we just accelerated the situation. It's the nature of man without God.
They don't hate us because we are good, they hate us, many of them, because we once gave the appearance of being good and have since, in their eyes, let them down. Where did it begin? Hugh Hefner is as good a guess as any but what difference does it make? Our television screens rage against God! Our streets are violent and we as a people have become desensitized to it. Our pulpits preach peace when there is no peace; thinking they are building faith in God, they are concealing His righteous anger. Gone almost, is the statesman, replaced by the pure politician. Government runs our lives, obsessed and drunken with power. I see no way that God will have mercy upon us as we exist today without a radical reformation. It would be ludicrous as evidenced from many examples in Scripture, that God would give us, as a nation, more time to sell our wares while profaning His name, refusing to let our children come to Him (those that we do not abort,) destroying His creation of the family and demanding that we are masters of our own fate.
It doesn't matter what I, or anyone so inclined as I, might say. For they are just words. God has blinded us to a world hastening to destruction. We read the news as much as to say "Things are dangerous....over there!" We have become insulated by our entertainments. Our motto has become Red Solo Cup...Let's Have A Party. We cannot see a day past the Super Bowl and when that is over everything will be put on hold until the end of March Madness, and so on. We are to be pitied, but pitied only by those who do not know the majesty of God and His omnipotent power, for His mercy is as abundant as His judgments are strict, but only in response to repentance.
There may very well be a yoke of affliction coming upon us for we have made it abundantly clear that only such a yoke can awaken us and even then, will our response be one of rending our garments and seeking God's mercy, to grow once again as a nation and church, or will we then blame God and those who did warn us? Do we really want to hear peace and safety when we are at the edge of the abyss? The same Scripture that recorded God's judgments upon nations recorded his mercies. It would behoove all of us to look into that Word to be informed of our creator, our benefactor, our sustainer up until now, our shepherd and the ruler of all the nations.
I'm reading a book right now about the Russian revolution and the year 1917 in Petrograd. Central to what I've read so far are the dispatches from foreign journalists back to their newspapers and magazines in their home countries. The word 'dispatches' sat very well with me when I read it as that's what I look upon many of these posts as....dispatches.....eye witness accounts so to speak....sent to others who because of time and circumstances view these things from afar. I've sent these posts back week after week and month after month and year after year to everyday Americans, detailing the unravelling conditions in our government and our society in general. The Russian autocracy, clad in their furs, feasting and travelling in their elegant automobiles and troikas, enjoyed their ballet and theater right up to the moment that their country collapsed.
The following comments on Noah Webster are from late last year while the post after it is from January of 2013.
"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character."
"If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted."
The two celebrities were bantering back and forth on television about language and one remarked that he heard it said that Noah Webster's last words were....."I am going to die......or I am about to die.......either is correct." I researched a bit Noah Webster's death and his actual words to a friend while death neared were..."I know in whom I have believed, and that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day."
The above quotations on electing principled men are obviously those of Noah Webster. We would have been far better off if we knew of his advice and heeded his words in the primaries. My take was that Donald Trump had entered the primaries essentially to build up the Trump brand. He probably hoped that he could be a spoiler but never expected his meteoric rise, nomination and generally election victory. He understood the issues that propelled him to the White House enough to build a campaign on them....but he did not understand the people who put him there....who live and breath the issues.
The problem was that conservatives didn't actually.... know whom they believed.....Donald Trump. We do now.....many of us. Finding ourselves in this predicament in these supremely dangerous times it would behoove us to concentrate on Noah Webster's words as death approached.....which were based on the Apostle's Paul's words....."...I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."...
America Unravelling....January 2013:
Charles Spurgeon wrote these words over a century ago, The yoke of affliction, disappointment, and excessive labor is by no means to be sought; but when the Lord lays it upon us in our youth it frequently develops a character which glorifies God and blesses the church. Come, my soul, bow thy neck; take up thy cross. It was good for thee when young, it will not harm thee now.
America is heading at breakneck speed in acquiring such a yoke. We are but a shell of what we were. Where the aroma of our freedom and liberty once wafted throughout the world it is now the stench of our culture that permeates much of the globe. There should be no surprise here for when a civilization becomes so prosperous that its economy is totally dependent on what its malls can sell, its influence for good becomes depleted in proportion to the disgust that is generated. We have become a seller to the world of that which makes it vomit. Given time, all these nations would have generated their own pollution on their own, we just accelerated the situation. It's the nature of man without God.
They don't hate us because we are good, they hate us, many of them, because we once gave the appearance of being good and have since, in their eyes, let them down. Where did it begin? Hugh Hefner is as good a guess as any but what difference does it make? Our television screens rage against God! Our streets are violent and we as a people have become desensitized to it. Our pulpits preach peace when there is no peace; thinking they are building faith in God, they are concealing His righteous anger. Gone almost, is the statesman, replaced by the pure politician. Government runs our lives, obsessed and drunken with power. I see no way that God will have mercy upon us as we exist today without a radical reformation. It would be ludicrous as evidenced from many examples in Scripture, that God would give us, as a nation, more time to sell our wares while profaning His name, refusing to let our children come to Him (those that we do not abort,) destroying His creation of the family and demanding that we are masters of our own fate.
It doesn't matter what I, or anyone so inclined as I, might say. For they are just words. God has blinded us to a world hastening to destruction. We read the news as much as to say "Things are dangerous....over there!" We have become insulated by our entertainments. Our motto has become Red Solo Cup...Let's Have A Party. We cannot see a day past the Super Bowl and when that is over everything will be put on hold until the end of March Madness, and so on. We are to be pitied, but pitied only by those who do not know the majesty of God and His omnipotent power, for His mercy is as abundant as His judgments are strict, but only in response to repentance.
There may very well be a yoke of affliction coming upon us for we have made it abundantly clear that only such a yoke can awaken us and even then, will our response be one of rending our garments and seeking God's mercy, to grow once again as a nation and church, or will we then blame God and those who did warn us? Do we really want to hear peace and safety when we are at the edge of the abyss? The same Scripture that recorded God's judgments upon nations recorded his mercies. It would behoove all of us to look into that Word to be informed of our creator, our benefactor, our sustainer up until now, our shepherd and the ruler of all the nations.
