July 14 2017 – Click here to listen
I used to belong to a 4-wheel drive club and once a month a couple of dozen of us would drive our 4-wheel drive vehicles through the narrow jeep trails of the rugged Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina on an overnight 4-wheel drive adventure. We would camp half way through and the following morning we would drive the rest of the way. It was great fun and we saw some beautiful streams, wildlife, and waterfalls as we traversed the gorgeous landscape.
One day I was driving along in my Toyota Landcruiser and a jeep was behind me. I had my windows up and he had a completely open top with nothing but his roll bar above him.
As we drove along, the driver of the jeep suddenly began honking his horn at me and desperately trying to pass me. I thought he had possibly lost his mind as he was frantically waving his arms in the air and acting like a Looney Tunes comic character as he frantically tried to get past me on the narrow jeep trail.
Then I saw the reason for his angst. Apparently as I drove ahead of him the wheel of my Land Cruiser had overturned a large rock that some angry yellow jackets had decided to build their nest underneath. When my buddy, who was following me, drove over the now exposed nest, the yellow jackets were swarming out of the ground in waves and attacked him and the guy riding with him with a vengeance.
My buddies were madly swatting away at them and desperately trying to escape as the angry yellow jackets swarmed all over them, stinging them all over their heads and torsos. I pulled over and let them by and their jeep took off like a scalded dog.
I drove perhaps another mile before I saw them stopped by a stream. They had swollen knots all over their heads and bodies where they had been stung numerous times. One pulled his tee shirt off and a couple of them flew out. I was concerned that they might have a reaction but thank the Lord they survived with nothing more than some very painful stings.
As I perused several web-based news sites this morning, I was reminded of this incident. President Donald J. Trump is being attacked at every turn by an angry swarm of left wing media, Obama era bureaucrats, deep state operatives, various establishment RINO’s, and winos. Human yellow jackets are what they remind me of, and I’m so sick of them I could literally vomit.
They can’t find enough legitimate reasons to slam Trump even with his occasional crudeness, however that doesn’t seem to be a problem for them, they just make stuff up. They swarm over any bit of news like angry yellow jackets. They refuse to give him credit for anything positive that he has done and indeed twist it to make it seem illegitimate somehow. They come off their nests at the slightest miscue and swarm after him over any and every little thing under the sun.
I was appalled lately when I saw a photo of Trump having hands laid on him and being prayed over in the oval office by numerous spiritual leaders. I watched the video of a CNN commentator who said in a disgusted manner that it was a strange sight watching them “pray” and several people were even “touching him” with their hands. She asked as though repulsed by it, “What was that all about?” as though he was involved in some strange occult ritual.
It’s difficult not to get mad when someone ridicules your faith. I have a friend who is a well-known evangelist, and I was lamenting to him about some of the wickedness that was going in Washington D.C. I railed about the immorality and corruption that was festering in that place and how the real deplorables were the ones who constantly lied, changed our laws to allow wickedness to run rampant in the United States, and were stealing the American people blind at every turn to line their own greedy pockets.
He looked at me as I completed my rant and simply said, “What would you expect them to do Bob, they’re pagans. They aren’t being guided by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God is nonsense and rubbish to them. In their world, anything goes. They are lost – We should pray for them.”
And that is what we did.
I was thinking of my friends who had been stung by the yellow jackets with swollen faces and arms and thought about how difficult that it would have been for them to have sympathy for those angry yellow jackets and pray for them. Now if I had said let’s go back tonight and pour gasoline down their lair and destroy them, they would have probably been up for that.
The yellow jackets were merely defending their home in the way that came natural to them. Attack and sting – defend our home. And so too, the human yellow jackets in the Washington D.C. swamp are attacking and defending their home in the only way they know how – lying, cheating, spinning, and trying to destroy any form of decency. Christians and true believers will pray for them and not pour gasoline on them. That is what Christ did for us.
Romans 5:8
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Have a great weekend and go to church this Sunday!