God’s world – Lee Duigon

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We should be acutely, painfully, miserably embarrassed by the news these days–and by the characters who (ahem!) “report” it.

So on Sunday I’d rather turn away from nooze. Let’s have hymns, let’s have prayers, let’s have rejoicing in God’s works, and by all means let’s have comedy. But let’s not have the nooze. It can surely wait till tomorrow. The same wicked morons who were screwing us in Congress on Friday will still be screwing us tomorrow.

I am up too early this morning, but there was a payoff: I saw the goldfinch again. Such a bright and brilliant yellow!

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I see one of these and think, “No way God abandons this world He made, and that He went to the Cross to save! No way he hands it over to the monsters!”

This is my Father’s world!/ O let me ne’er forget

That tho’ the wrong seems oft so strong,

God is the ruler yet.

FILE PHOTO - JANUARY 27: Red Cross volunteers fighting against the spanish flu epidemy in United States in 1918 (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

1918: Looks familiar, doesn’t it?

Now is as good a time as any to remember the 1918 influenza epidemic–that killed some 20 million people worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States.

https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/flu-etc

Otto Scott wrote this history lesson for Chalcedon in 1991. Since then several flu outbreaks, accounting for tens of thousands of deaths, have come and gone. And here in 2020 we’re stuck in the Great Quarantine.

The most important lesson is, we don’t control our destiny. No matter what The Smartest People In The World say, that’s a sheer delusion. Writes Otto Scott, “It is not our world; we neither own nor control it.”

It’s God’s world, and we’re just here on a short-term lease.