I posted the following anecdote a few months ago......right below it is another anecdote concerning something that happened last night......below these is a full post from March of 2017 at the conclusion of the yearly CPAC conference:
We were sitting across the table at dinner and my wife asked me a question on plans we have for tomorrow. I may have had a glazed look on my face and my response was something like..."Wha?" I apologized...the conversation went something like this:
"Sorry...My mind is somewhere else."
"What are you thinking about?"
I paused and then answered truthfully...
"Nebuchadnezzar."
"Nebuchadnezzar?....You're eating meatloaf during a cozy dinner with your wife and thinking about Nebuchadnezzar?"
"Uh huh."
Last night my wife and I were playing cards with her parents......Five Hundred......we each put in a dollar.....winner take all. I have to admit that this was more an act of mercy on my wife and her parents who desperately needed a fourth.....but I do enjoy cards on occasion. I was having a difficult time though last night.....I couldn't keep my mind on the cards....maybe it was because I kept hearing the word 'trump'? I misdealt two or three times......bid out of order.....and generally flubbed a few other hands. At one point as I failed to follow suit I had to smile to myself....for my mind had wandered to....Nebuchadnezzar.
Selfies At CPAC
Most any Christian of at least a few years is familiar with the passage of Scripture in the book of Daniel where Nebuchadnezzar was on the roof of the royal palace admiring all that he had accomplished when he exclaimed..."Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?" A few years ago Donald Trump was interviewed on Face The Nation by the CBS host John Dickerson. I came across the transcripts of that interview last night and a comment in an answer that he gave was a little unsettling...he said, "...In my case, I have made over $10 billion net, net, net! I have created a tremendous company! I have some of the greatest assets in the world!"
Every shout of USA...USA...USA...such as we hear a lot and such as I heard only minutes ago from the televised coverage of CPAC at National Harbor, Maryland, is wasted breath at best. We also remember, I would expect, what happened to Nebuchadnezzar after his boastful rant? He became a vegetarian for seven whatevers while eating the grass of the field with the beasts. This is no time for shouts of USA USA USA....nor is it a time for let's Make America Great Again. We are a society of fist pumps for sinking a putt....where we were once a people who would more likely beat our breast in sorrow for offending our God.
What President Trump may be about to experience in that office he occupies would be more than any man....or woman....can handle without faith in Jesus Christ....and about a million times worse than any bankruptcy he ever worked his way out of. This is beyond a tempest that we are in....it's a whirlpool.....a vortex whose suction is pulling us under while we....our arms outstretched....are taking selfies at CPAC.
We were sitting across the table at dinner and my wife asked me a question on plans we have for tomorrow. I may have had a glazed look on my face and my response was something like..."Wha?" I apologized...the conversation went something like this:
"Sorry...My mind is somewhere else."
"What are you thinking about?"
I paused and then answered truthfully...
"Nebuchadnezzar."
"Nebuchadnezzar?....You're eating meatloaf during a cozy dinner with your wife and thinking about Nebuchadnezzar?"
"Uh huh."
Last night my wife and I were playing cards with her parents......Five Hundred......we each put in a dollar.....winner take all. I have to admit that this was more an act of mercy on my wife and her parents who desperately needed a fourth.....but I do enjoy cards on occasion. I was having a difficult time though last night.....I couldn't keep my mind on the cards....maybe it was because I kept hearing the word 'trump'? I misdealt two or three times......bid out of order.....and generally flubbed a few other hands. At one point as I failed to follow suit I had to smile to myself....for my mind had wandered to....Nebuchadnezzar.
Selfies At CPAC
Most any Christian of at least a few years is familiar with the passage of Scripture in the book of Daniel where Nebuchadnezzar was on the roof of the royal palace admiring all that he had accomplished when he exclaimed..."Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?" A few years ago Donald Trump was interviewed on Face The Nation by the CBS host John Dickerson. I came across the transcripts of that interview last night and a comment in an answer that he gave was a little unsettling...he said, "...In my case, I have made over $10 billion net, net, net! I have created a tremendous company! I have some of the greatest assets in the world!"
Every shout of USA...USA...USA...such as we hear a lot and such as I heard only minutes ago from the televised coverage of CPAC at National Harbor, Maryland, is wasted breath at best. We also remember, I would expect, what happened to Nebuchadnezzar after his boastful rant? He became a vegetarian for seven whatevers while eating the grass of the field with the beasts. This is no time for shouts of USA USA USA....nor is it a time for let's Make America Great Again. We are a society of fist pumps for sinking a putt....where we were once a people who would more likely beat our breast in sorrow for offending our God.
What President Trump may be about to experience in that office he occupies would be more than any man....or woman....can handle without faith in Jesus Christ....and about a million times worse than any bankruptcy he ever worked his way out of. This is beyond a tempest that we are in....it's a whirlpool.....a vortex whose suction is pulling us under while we....our arms outstretched....are taking selfies at CPAC.
