It Was The Most Blessed Day For Charles Colson....When His World Fell Apart

                I do not take any joy when with someone that I totally disagree with or even think that they are a curse upon America....when their life collapses in a moment right before them. Rudy Guiliani or Mike Lindell for instance. I just  don't. I may have a lot of serious faults....but laughing or smirking at someone's else's misfortune is not one of them. Why? Well I only have to look at my own life. God could have had me groveling in the gutter in my early years.
                The situation with the Michigan football coach is more than sad. It's concerning. On top of the world....one day....or close to it....and then on the dung heap. There may be no better example of something like this than with Chuck Colson....a man situated right in the Oval Office....family....extraordinary pension....everything that the world considers success.....and then....crying in his car....as he looks forward to a jail sentence.
                So the concern for someone like the Michigan football coach....or anyone in a sudden riches to rags and shame situation....is that they do not consider ending it all....of which they are not aware....is only an ending of life on this earth....but a beginning of a timeless eternity....whatever that may turn out to be. I don't have to know the scientific space time continuum.....for it is enough to know that God's Word uses the phrase...."weeping and gnashing of teeth." Those five words are description enough for me of someplace that no sane mind....even the most defiant....would want to go.
               There were a lot of folks in Trump's first term who later wished that they had never joined up with him....and there will be many more this time....and I won't take any satisfaction in their misfortune. 
                God had mercy on Nixon's hatchet man! This was 1974. Jimmy Carter told the world that he was born again. Hippies were being baptized in the Pacific Ocean. Billy Graham crusades were on our four-channel TVs all the time. Pat Robertson was just starting out....David Wilkerson was preaching and R. C. Sproul was beginning to teach on the holiness of God....and Hal Lindsey....although he didn't realize it....was giving the world a primer on Israel and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
                Colson's entire countenance had changed! He has gone on to be with his Lord and Savior....but I'm sure that sometime in the past he had said that his very public collapse was the best blessing that God could have given him. Maybe it will be the same for this Michigan coach....for God had mercy upon me....the lowest of the low....and more unlovable even than Charles Colson in his heyday.
                You would know it if you heard it....the University of Michigan fight song....that begins...."Hail to the victors valiant....Hail to the conqu'ring heroes"....but this passion and praise is fleeting....and worthless.....and vanity. May it be for many....that this is the day that they can finally see and say...."To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power for ever and ever,"