Preface: In a way....it's like the confusion of tongues at the tower of Babel. The far-left speaks....and then the far-right speaks....but it's like the two are babbling....neither understands the other. They debate as if on Post-it notes....understandable only to those on their side to whom the notes are posted. Both are in attack mode....a player piano whose tune is militant....pounding.....that beats the savage breast....not soothes the savage beast. They want war and not peace. They want fire and not light. They want to talk and not listen. They conspire....not communicate....and never compromise. Neither can think two steps ahead on the chessboard. Neither thinks of consequences.
November 22, 1963....yet another day that will live in infamy. On that day our president had part of his head blown off. An epic and monumental cover-up was needed....to protect us from things that we couldn't handle....and that is exactly what we got. A certain few men at the top of our military and CIA literally hated Kennedy....and his brother. I wrote sometime in the last year how avoiding world war....especially in this nuclear age.....was and is to be our number one priority. Calmer heads prevailed in October of 1962 because of JFK. Say what you want about his personal life....and you would probably be right....but he was the quintessential American hero. As for his brother Robert.....there is not a man or woman in the congress today with the compassion for minorities and the underprivileged than he possessed....along with the determination against the odds to press on.
President Kennedy was to have given a speech later on that fateful day in Dallas....which has been described as his last official words as president....though never spoken....which concluded with this....."The righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: 'Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain'." That Bible excerpt is the last half of the 1st verse of Psalm 127... from the King James Version, which begins with this.... "Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it." So the full verse is:..."Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
C. S. Lewis also died on that day....as did maybe America....or at least our mortal illness began to metastasize into the culture and fabric of our land....and JFK would have been no help here....in fact he was in the vanguard of our personal self-indulgence. Other than a most wonderful time in the 70s and 80s where so many....myself included....became not just conservative evangelical church goers....but born again believers....and set off on our pilgrimage with banners flying that Jesus was Lord....that He was our only hope.....and our only refuge....other than this period....we lost track of the straight path.
Today....with false prophets and delusion everywhere....we are laboring in vain to build that which the Lord has not told us to build....and with violence and dangers everywhere....just as in the days of Noah....and with a great famine of the Word in our pulpits....and a storm of unimaginable strength brewing....and a fog so thick that we can hardly see where our feet are landing....a voice still beckons us forward....telling us that the lions ferociously clawing at us on both sides of the narrow way....both sides of the aisle if you will....are indeed restrained....so forward we go....trusting in the true voice that we have come to know....a light to our path..."And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come." (1 Thessalonians 1:10)
Note: There is an exceptional broadcast on…renewingyourmind.org…this morning titled… “Clash Of The Titans”….that pertains to what our priorities are to be in this “cancel culture” that we live in.
Update: this is no longer the audio of the day but can still be easily accessed by going to the 'archives' link.
