May the mumbling commence!
Trust not in chariots and horses. Trust not in semi-automatic weapons. Trust not in biological warfare. Trust not in nuclear warheads and missiles. These things may seem powerful and stout to us, but they are as nothing to the Lord. Even our supposed strength is weaker than God’s weakness! Read from Psalm seventy-six:
You are more glorious and excellent
Than the mountains of prey.
The stouthearted were plundered;
They have sunk into their sleep;
And none of the mighty men have found the use of their hands.
At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both the chariot and horse were cast into a dead sleep. (Verses 4-6)
The stout and the stouthearted are plundered as they rest in their perceived strengths. None of them can lift a hand to do anything. The weapons of war and mass destruction are cast to inanimate slumber. They are nothing at the rebuke of our Lord.
A New Year rapidly approaches. Let us leave behind our dependency and trust in the strength of humanity. Let us forsake the power of the weapons of war. Let us forsake the power of knowledge and privilege. Let us forsake the power of celebrity and influence. Let us forsake the power of money and wealth.
Let us trust more and more in the Lord. Let us trust in the mercy and grace and love and truth and justice and peace of the Lord. Let us declare the glorious and excellent living Lord of all.
Let us relinquish our pride and vanity and admit our total dependence on the Lord – and our interdependence on one another. Read from Proverbs chapter twenty-eight:
He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife,
But he who trusts in the Lord will be prospered. (Verse 25)
By relinquishing our pride and vanity we forsake strife for prosperity – self-reliance for total reliance on the Lord.
What better trade could we wish or dream or imagine?
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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