March 22, 2013
New Digs
In the process of moving a shed in the backyard to make room for a new
garage, we eliminated the abode of the neighborhood’s stray cat. The longhaired
grey cat was one of a litter born under the shed and it was the only home he
has ever known. I’ve never encouraged him to hang around, but the neighbors
have kept him well fed over the years. When he first realized the shed was
moved there was a look of bewilderment, but then slowly walking through the
path of the trench for the foundation of the new garage you could tell he was one
disgruntled cat. I’ve seen that look before. When we accept Jesus we become a
new creation and it can be very unsettling when the Lord immediately begins
dismantling our old, comfortable abode and starts preparing our new digs in
heaven. “Do not let your hearts be
troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house
are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to
prepare a place for you.” (John 14:1-2 NIV)
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Gail;
-----Our imaginations applied to our knowledge of the recent past is the only ability we have to know what the next moment brings. Generally that is plenty. So our slipping through the moments is usually mundane. But there comes those moments which seem to have little relation to your past. At least to the past you know. The gray kitty had no knowledge of your plans. He came home that day to a major paradigm shift. And he has had to humble himself to it, because he can’t put the shed back. Now, for the next few days he will have to be rather pliable as he finds a new normal to call home.
-----A rising evil works the same around the world. It plans to move our shed. It is moving our shed. We are experiencing unprecedented levels of audacious deceit that are changing the landscape of the world's culture, its politics, and its religion. Don’t think for a minute that the minds stirring up this tsunami do not understand the pliability of the masses effected through the psychology of disorder. Thus, a good crisis should never go to waste, right, Rahm? “Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence, all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency.” (Liberal Fascism. Jonah Goldberg. Pg 43) Our shed has not been fully moved. But those of us with good enough sense to relate the past to the present see a definite deliberateness of, if not deliberation in a continuous governmental spending far, far in excess of the economy’s ability to remit taxes.
-----The economic collapse of our shed is inevitable, not certainly because the present damage is irreversible, but because the flow of deceit fostering its perpetuation has reached the proportion of taking on its own life. It is not a deceit about economics only, like borrowing your way out of bankruptcy. It is a deceit which paints Islam peaceful amidst rolling heads, homosexuality useful in a sea of AIDS, feminism desirable in a moral freefall, and the sovereignty of mankind an utopia in the face of God’s immovable creation. Paul told the Thessalonians that the coming of the lawless one will be “…with all wicked deception for those who are to perish.” (II Thes 2:10) I’ve not seen in my life the bold face lying to the public which has occurred over the last ten years, nor the degree of its escalation even to this moment.
-----Now, I clarify myself. Our imagination applied to knowledge of the past is not the only ability we have to anticipate the next moment, unless we include knowledge of God’s Word in the definition of knowing the past. God told us that the shed will be moved. The earth will shake, the seas will roll, all the green grass and trees will burn up, the sun will turn black and all the stars will stop their shining while the Just and Right and Truthful One stomps the grapes of wrath so His beloved can enjoy a new home freed from the wicked. The recent past is beginning to make Revelation look like the near future. And that is exciting enough that if I have to miss my shed for a while before the grapes are stomped, I will do so with great joy and gusto. Come, Lord Jesus, let’s roll!
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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