Requested by Erlene: Great Is Thy Faithfulness, sung by the Blue Rock Mennonite Youth.
How long, do you suppose, the human race would last without God’s mercy and compassion? As the Bible tells us, they are renewed every day.
Tag: God’s mercy
‘For His Mercy Endureth Forever’ (Rushdoony)
Do we need God’s mercy?
We wouldn’t last five minutes without it!
Psalm 136, “For His mercy endureth forever,” inspired this essay by R.J. Rushdoony, published in the Chalcedon Magazine 20 years ago. God’s mercy lasts forever, he asked; how long does our mercy last?
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/for-his-mercy-endureth-forever
Too many Christians think of God as if He were a spare tire kept in the trunk of their car, Rushdoony wrote: great to have in an emergency, but otherwise something that they never think about.
Well, I find that psalm inspiring, too. If you read my Bell Mountain books, you know I use it as the anthem for King Ryons’ army.
Let us try to widen the embrace of our own mercy.
Babel: God’s Wisdom and Mercy
When men a few generations removed from the Great Flood sought to build a tower that would reach to Heaven–the story is told in Genesis 11–God came down and confounded their language. Unable to communicate with each other, they gave up their building project and dispersed throughout the earth, eventually growing into various nations, each with its own language.
We are in the habit of viewing God’s actions toward the builders of Babel as a judgment and a punishment. A judgment it certainly was; but I’ve come to think of it not as a punishment, but as a mercy devised by His wisdom.
Take into account man’s inherent sinfulness, his natural bent for folly, and his high opinion of himself–and then factor in God allowing the Tower to be built and not confounding their language. I mean, really, they hadn’t learned their lesson from the Flood, and God had promised not to wipe them out again–but what if He had let them alone?
What could be more dreadful, than for God to leave us to our own devices?
Since the start of history, conquerors have tried to be masters of the world, creating bigger and bigger empires as their means for mischief grew. Today this has evolved into Globalism: all that “citizen of the world” claptrap from the 1930s is alive and well today. And doing as much harm as it possibly can.
The motive remains the same: domination of others. From Alexander the Great to the cocktail crowd at Davos is only a difference in methodology. Alexander had the Macedonian phalanx to crush nations under his feet. Globalists have Climate Change, and the “news” media.
Imagine how much easier this satanic scheme would be to carry out, had God not scattered the human race at Babel. Imagine how instantaneously culture rot could set in, anywhere in the world, if we were all of one language.
What God did at Babel was a way of protecting us from those of our race who would devour us. There is no doubt in my mind that among Satan’s fondest dreams is world government, over which he would rule as prince–probably behind the scenes: he likes it in the dark. And world government would devour us.
Alexander, Caesar, communism, Nazism, the United Nations, this foundation, that foundation–they were all about world government, and that’s what they’re all about today. That’s what “open borders” is: an attempt to undo what God did on the plain of Shinar, thousands of years ago.
A few of you keep telling me that the purpose of all the abominable lunacies of this era is to force us to declare who’s side we’re on, God’s or the devil’s.
I’m beginning to think you’re right.
Prayer Request: America
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that he cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. –Isaiah 59:1-2
Father in Heaven, you have raised up wicked and ungodly rulers over us, as chastisement for our sins. We must confess that we have sinned against you, repeatedly. We have been cold and indifferent to you, and ungrateful, and have constantly rebelled against your law. We have willfully listened to false prophets and followed blind guides: and now we are so deep in sin and folly, we can’t possibly escape.
As you did for the Prodigal Son, O God, help us as a nation to come to our senses, and turn away from our sins and our idols: exert your strength on us, O Lord, and turn us to salvation; turn us back to you.
Save us, O God, not for our sakes, but for Jesus’ Christ’s sake, who is our only savior; not for our sakes, but for your own great mercy’s sake, as a Lord who loves to give mercy; not for our sakes, but for your own h0nor and glory’s sake, so that the whole world will see your power and might.
Father, how high and how proud must these wicked and ungodly rulers grow, before you cut them off?
Please, Lord, do not let our nation fall into Hillary Clinton’s hands; but let her rather fall into the hands of justice, long delayed.
Bring us back, O God, bring us back to you. We are lost and cannot find out way; but the Good Shepherd knows the way.
Come, Lord Jesus, come! Amen.
Do Famous People Read This Blog?
w
Oops, her picture came out bigger than I expected. I’ll never figure out this technology.
Nationally syndicated columnist Peggy Noonan has a piece in The Wall Street Journal, “Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected” ( http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-the-rise-of-the-unprotected-1456448550 ), which sounds an awful lot like some of the stuff I’ve posted here lately, for instance yesterday, The War on Normal People ( http://leeduigon.com/2016/02/26/the-war-on-normal-people/ ).
Does that mean she’s reading this blog and echoing its posts?
Nah. It only means certain ideas are so flaming obvious, they’re now occurring to a lot of different people all at once.
It’s true: the ruling classes of the Western world are totally insulated from the baneful effects of their wicked, foolish public policies. It’s the normal people, “the unprotected,” who have to live with this and pay for it. And pay, and pay, and pay!
To quote Thomas Jefferson, “I tremble for my nation, when I reflect that God is just.”
And for those of you who wish to shave down the impact of the quote because Jefferson, you say, was a deist, not a Christian, hey–the point was so obvious, even a deist could see it.
God never lets this stuff go on forever.
That’s His mercy.