Preface: The following paragraph was composed two years ago:
"On November 22, 1963 President Kennedy was to give a speech in Dallas....probably composed by Ted Sorensen. That speech....never given....but that still exists on paper....would have concluded with these words...."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'." The full verse in the first verse of Psalm 127....KJV....reads.... "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." Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932. We are familiar with that but he also wrote The Doors Of Perception that documented his psychedelic trips on mescaline. He was a famed apologist on most anything anti-Christian. C. S. Lewis of course was the prodigious and profound apologist on the Christian Faith. All three men.....JFK and Huxley and C. S. Lewis died 59 years ago today. (that would be 61 years ago today)
It was indeed Camelot....a handsome prince.....an intellectual really....and a Shakespearean tragedy. I was in Sister Alfreda's 8th grade classroom on that day in 1963....when she came in crying....semi-informed us of what happened....and along with the whole school we were dismissed for the day.
So....it has been acknowledged that a Bible verse....from Psalm 127....in the King James version....was the last official words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Those words should have spoken directly to us in the church in the past eight years. Unless the LORD builds this house of ours....we are laboring in vain....and unless he keeps the city....or...."watches over the city"....as the ESV puts it....or...."guards a city"....as the NASB puts it....all of our efforts as....watchmen....are and will be in vain. There is nothing there about a....lesser of two evils. JFK was correct....he and Ted Sorenson probably....righteousness has to be our cause....not hegemony....not preeminence....and not getting what is ours.
