My wife and I have been playing a lot of Scrabble lately....and we challenge the use of a word on average of a couple of times every game. So she put the two tiles down....reading top to bottom....making a three letter word. I was reading the board from the side....(that's my excuse)....looked at her word and said...."What kind of word is that....w...o...e?" She just looked at me and softly uttered....probably in concern for my mind...."Whoa." I looked again...."Oh....w...o...e....woe?" I didn't challenge. I don't know exactly how to fit this into the Bible except that sometimes the words are right before our eyes....and we don't have a clue as to what they are telling us. The following was posted in the summer of 2016....a few months before the general election:
"Woe To Those...."
One of the many pitfalls to an election year is that by the very nature of it people can either neglect or outright ignore the even weightier matters of life as they concern America. This presidential election....(Trump and Hillary)....is not meaningless...but it is close to it. Now that statement would send many conservatives into orbit! That's because they can see no further than a President Hillary Rodham Clinton. From a purely temporal perspective, it can be called 'life or death,' but the temporal is the junior partner in our existence.
My writing on America.....from these posts...to letters-to-the-editor....to mimeographed newsletters sent out to anyone and everyone that I knew....go back well into the 1990s. I was Tea Party before there was a Tea Party. I can hardly be accused of ignoring politics and how it affects our nation but consider just this one verse from Isaiah....
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
and put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter,
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and shrewd in their own sight....
Friends....this describes us! Politics is indeed part of our problem but God has been both warning and afflicting America for many years yet we have not demonstrated the slightest inclination of turning to Him. Instead we look to Donald Trump...a man who has shown little to no concern for the things of God. Have our entertainments changed? Have our idols been put away? Have our pulpits even mentioned God's warnings that begin with..."Woe to those...?" Even the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage....if we could reverse them....would but dampen the fires of our wholesale rebellion against God.
I have written and will continue to write on this election...(Lord willing)....but all efforts like this cannot stay God's hand of judgment upon us! All they could possibly do....should God even have mercy upon us....is to put a government in place that might recognize our own culpability in our distress. This would be valuable....and for this we should continue to work....and Donald Trump may be the only alternative....but as to.....making America great again.....this election is utterly meaningless!
"Woe To Those...."
One of the many pitfalls to an election year is that by the very nature of it people can either neglect or outright ignore the even weightier matters of life as they concern America. This presidential election....(Trump and Hillary)....is not meaningless...but it is close to it. Now that statement would send many conservatives into orbit! That's because they can see no further than a President Hillary Rodham Clinton. From a purely temporal perspective, it can be called 'life or death,' but the temporal is the junior partner in our existence.
My writing on America.....from these posts...to letters-to-the-editor....to mimeographed newsletters sent out to anyone and everyone that I knew....go back well into the 1990s. I was Tea Party before there was a Tea Party. I can hardly be accused of ignoring politics and how it affects our nation but consider just this one verse from Isaiah....
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
and put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter,
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and shrewd in their own sight....
Friends....this describes us! Politics is indeed part of our problem but God has been both warning and afflicting America for many years yet we have not demonstrated the slightest inclination of turning to Him. Instead we look to Donald Trump...a man who has shown little to no concern for the things of God. Have our entertainments changed? Have our idols been put away? Have our pulpits even mentioned God's warnings that begin with..."Woe to those...?" Even the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage....if we could reverse them....would but dampen the fires of our wholesale rebellion against God.
I have written and will continue to write on this election...(Lord willing)....but all efforts like this cannot stay God's hand of judgment upon us! All they could possibly do....should God even have mercy upon us....is to put a government in place that might recognize our own culpability in our distress. This would be valuable....and for this we should continue to work....and Donald Trump may be the only alternative....but as to.....making America great again.....this election is utterly meaningless!
