July 22, 2020 – Click here to listen
I had a guy come out and service my air conditioning units yesterday. And when I was paying his invoice, he began a rant about the state of the country. He said he is thru with watching the news. He said that he got so angry the last time he watched the news he almost threw his cell phone at his television set. Seeing anarchists running around destroying anything they can get their hands on while liberal mayors and the media defend them has him incensed.
Just when I thought he had cooled off some he began to go off on all these people who are changing the names of products like Uncle Ben’s rice and Aunt Jemima pancake mix, Eskimo Pies, army bases, roads, and tearing down statues and so on. I asked if he had heard that they were eliminating chess on public radio because the rules of chess require the white side to move first. He hadn’t heard that one, but it just added fuel to the fire as his face turned beet red.
Then he brought up the subject of apologizing for being white. I told him that God had created us the way He wanted us to appear and who am I to apologize for God creating me the way He did. I haven’t even created one star, who am I to tell God the Creator of everything visible and invisible that all of humanity should be one color. Am I supposed to apologize for having green eyes too? What the AC guy said is unprintable.
He finally left and immediately a friend called whom I haven’t heard from in a while and he was likewise incensed. His beef was Coronavirus and he told me how someone he knew was going to get tested for it, but the line was too long, so he left without getting tested. Two days later he received a letter stating he tested positive. I read this morning where the Florida Governor is opening an investigation into this as it seems to be a widespread problem all over Florida. I read just this morning where Connecticut is having similar problems.
Why?
I would suspect that the obvious goal for this would be to make things look worse than they really are and make it look bad for Trump and Republican governors who are trying to get the economy going again. That in itself seems ridiculous to me because Trump nor the governors started the plague and from what I can tell have done everything humanly possible to fight it.
What a mess! Rioters, plague, economic havoc raging throughout our land. Fox news came out with a poll showing Biden leading Trump. Then it came out that the poll reflected just 22% of Republicans. Classic poll corruption designed to dishearten Trump supporters.
As I prayed into this today, I asked God to intervene, but added, nonetheless Lord let Your will be done and not mine.
There is no question that God has a plan for what is occurring in this country. It may take a while but when the dust settles it will result in something exceedingly good. It reminds me of doing a controlled burn on Honey Lake Plantation. Fire rages its way across thousands of acres and burns off underbrush leaving a charred black forest floor in its wake. People unfamiliar with what is going panic at the sight of flames engulfing the forest. The timber survives the fire and in fact is stimulated to grow afterwards. A few weeks after the burn the forest floor comes alive with lush green growth popping up everywhere. Whitetail deer, wild turkeys and other wildlife move in and gorge on it and once again calm descends upon it and order is restored. And so it will be with our current dilemma.
I don’t watch the news anymore and only skim the headlines just reading a small portion of the stories that catch my eye and interest me. Most of what we read is simply lies anyway, so why get enraged and throw a cellphone through the big screen? The Lord will take care of us. He is the Master and I am but a simple slave. Slaves don’t have to solve the problems of the world, that is the Master’s job, so why should I waste time worrying about it? The Bible states that “The Lord laughs at the wicked,” why shouldn’t we chill out some and join Him?
With that said I do believe we should all vote. And as for me it is a very safe bet that I will not be voting for Joe Biden. I believe that the number of votes that Trump will receive will surprise media and liberal people just as it did last time because I believe there are far more people who feel like my AC guy than not . . .
Psalm 37:13
But the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.