I’ve listened to people say that God loves them so much and they believe he answers every prayer and God even finds them a parking spot when needed. I can’t say too much about God being a “sugar daddy” except to say that the rain falls on us all. I remember Fulton Sheen saying that God loved his mother so much he let her die peaceably in her sleep. As many of us can testify, that wasn’t the case for our mothers.

Throughout scripture I’ve noticed that God doesn’t do anything until the cercumstances becomes impossible. I know people are instantaneously healed by God’s power and I believe it’s necessary to believe God before you can have faith in him. God does do things for us to allow us to personally know that he listens to our prayers. That’s all on a personal, one on one basis.

When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt they met the Red Sea right away. If you’ve ever looked at the place of their crossing you realize it was an impossible situation. Gideon’s army was a paltry 300 men; impossible. Marching around Jericho blowing trumpets; impossible. When God watered down the idol of Baal and the prophets of Baal exampled all the futility of worshiping a dead god, God burned the whole sacrifice completely; impossible.

Time after time we find ourselves in impossible situations and today we find ourselves in the ultimate predicament. Civilization seems to be completely unraveling. Lawlessness and corruption contaminate everything from top to bottom. Some would say that this is the end and from what the Book of Revelation tells us we sure look close to that hour.

The church in America has divorced itself for the most part from the church in the rest of the world. We church people are America centered. We’ve forgotten we’re supposed to go into the whole world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. This isn’t to say there aren’t many good ministries doing wonderful things but as a whole the church is filled with people who focus most of their time and resources on human solutions to their problems.

God enjoys praise. I guess there’s something about being the Creator of everything that makes God assume we should pay homage and credit to the one who made us. He personally, on purpose, created us in his image. Being made from dust and returning to dust should make and keep us humble. We should be reverent and thankful to the one who holds our breath in his hands. As Americans we’ve pretty much decided that we can solve our problems without too much interference by God. Oh yeah, it’s great that God forgives our sin but after repeating the sinner’s prayer we jump into the caldron of American citizens who bandy about the boiling mess of mankind in an effort to solve all our problems with human solutions.

Now we are on the threshold of a world where common sense has been abandoned. We’ve lived in a house of cards sponsered by unthinkable debt for so long, we’ve ignored how thin the walls are that support our existence. In short, what we’re facing is impossible. I can’t say what exactly will happen (I’m not a prophet) but I do see the writing on the wall. The Bible is a book of wisdom; what was true six thousand years ago is true today. Simply put, you will reap what you sow. We have sown the wind and will reap the whirlwind.

The times ahead are the ultimate test of our faith. We stand like those with the Red Sea before them with no way to go but through the water. All we can think of is drowning. Our everything is at risk of perishing; we have come to the end of man’s solutions. It’s ugly. We don’t want to do it. Many still pretend we can go back but no, the enemy is coming. They’re more powerful than us; they’ve already crushed many and we’re next.

Impossible. I don’t have answers but I do know this, God loves the impossible. It’s only then that God is glorified. Like the raising of Lazarus, Jesus waited till the stink was heavy in the air before he acted. The stench of filthy rags fill the American air. We entered the tomb a long time ago.

Will God do the impossible? Could be. This world is not my home, I’m just passing through but while I’m here I exalt God for who He is and what He has done and what his crown achievement is the Cross of Jesus Christ. This is what God has done for us. He doesn’t care about your parking spot. He cares about you and me and whether we choose Him above everything else.

1922 Christmas Eve Message

Title: 1922 Christmas Eve Message

Date: December 24, 1922

Location: compiled from speeches printed in the New York Times and the Washington Evening Star

Context: Delivered by Vice President Coolidge to the American People, broadcast nationwide over the General Electric radio station, WGY

“When the first Christmas came to mankind it brought the assurance that their faith and hope were justified.  It revealed the existence of an everlasting righteousness.  It established the foundation of the civilization of the Western world.  Through all the shifting changes of more than nineteen centuries this revelation has remained, constant, unshaken, secure.

“Through the influence of its teachings there has come a recognition of the glory of man.  He has been raised up to his true position, ‘a little lower than the angels.’  The universal right of freedom has been acknowledged.  Obedience to authority has been sanctified.  The existence of a common brotherhood has been disclosed.  The ever-abiding obligation of service has been established.

“These are the fundamental principles of American institutions.  They were not created by man.  They cannot be destroyed by man.  They have a higher, more imposing source, reaching from everlasting to everlasting.  To observe these principles, to live by them, to translate them into action, is the way to good citizenship, to progress and to economic success.  There is no other way.  The full significance of Christmas is lost unless, as a part of its observance, the American people think of these things.

“It is the realization of these great truths that warrants an abounding optimism.  They have not failed, they cannot fail.  There are times when they may appear to be rejected, but they always emerge strengthened through increasing allegiance, triumphant through enlarging victories.

“These are the reasons why our country has no need of revolution.  What it needs is perfection.  The world waits on the extension of these principles into the practical affairs of people.  Their application will be found not in some complicated legislative enactment, not in some abstruse theory, but in the simple and homely experience of everyday life.  If more freedom is desired, it can be had by more obedience.  If there is need of more brotherhood, it will be found in more service.  If success be sought, the way lies open through thrift and industry.  If character is wanted, it can be created by hard work and kind deeds.  This is the substance of which America has been built.

“Of all countries on earth ours needs the least apology.  Whatever it is desirable for a people to have, here it may be secured.  Opportunity is open.  The rewards of effort are sure and large.  They are growing better.

“All of this leads to but one conclusion.  Preserve American institutions.  Perfect the relationships of daily life.  Persevere and go forward, obedient to the divine instruction:  ‘Be ye constant in well doing.’  That way lies our promised peace and good will of which the angels sang with joy as they beheld the miracle of the first Christmas.  The mission of America is to make that vision a reality.”

We see it all around us. We live in a new woke atmosphere of justice that promotes equity over equality. Equity is loosely defined as making sure all have access to the same benefits whether in the classroom or in the society at large. It further makes the “state” obligated to individualize the talents/needs of each person. Equality is having some form of same access but allowing the individual to work to overcome obstacles to their success.

Our country’s founding was based on individual effort without government interference, a unique concept in a world long bathed in a group effort mentality. They say that equity is a step above or an advancement in the noble desire for equality. We teach our young that they have the right to the American Dream without rooting their success in their own effort. This is where the idea that, “you didn’t build that” which President Obama put forth, comes from. There is nothing special about you. Oh, the collective pundits say there is but the experience on the ground shouts no. You are what the mob-supported government says you are.

Your skin color, religion, sex (lack of gender), or political bent determines your value. In fact it’s fast becoming your reason for being alive is dependent on checking the right boxes. Individual effort and responsibility are only important in relation to how well you obey the edicts of your betters. For a man who doesn’t check boxes well and therefore by default is an enemy of the state, my future in this utopian paradise doesn’t look promising.

This idea of equity over equality effects our everyday choices. For instance our choice of dogs is being skewed by equity. I “like” dogs well enough but these thoughts may offend dog-centric people, a risk I am willing to take. Dogs by many people’s standards are deemed better friends, better companions, and in short, better than humans.

The SPCA came to the United States in 1866 which is notable because it was the year after the end of the Civil War which claimed more American lives than any other war. The world has always been a cruel place and it was the implementation of English common law that nourished the resolution of so many reprehensible things. However, it also ushered in a generation of over-zealous members of a growing society who now are divorced from the necessity of making tough choices regarding bad animals and humans.

No-kill rescues are becoming more popular and with that more dogs of questionable value as a pet are being promoted for adoption. I don’t support cruelty to animals but we’ve developed a world of no consequences for bad actors in both the animal world and the human arena.

Because the world is “over-populating” according to elite minds the aborting of humans is thought most beneficial to the world whilst at the same time ignoring the cruelty of the act. Let’s tie this over-indulgence in equity to the problematic outcome it presents.

Up till now we’ve kept the more belligerent and dangerous members of equitable teaching out of our daily lives. It has in the past only been the occasional heinous crime that upsets our pursuit of happiness. But equity has brought us to the threshold of a violent cultural norm one step at a time. Every man deserves to live even if he’s committed unthinkably cruel crimes. The same applies to dogs. It varies state to state but it’s fair to say that the popularity of no-kill shelters and prisons accommodate the proliferation of the worst of men and the worst of dogs in our society.

A hundred years ago the average person knew when dogs became dangerous and you put them down. The same applied to men. As we feel the encroaching violence batter our everyday peace it becomes more necessary to start saying no to those that don’t know good from evil.

We will either have equal rights or we will be surrounded by the equitable mob who value us purely on the things that don’t matter to God.

Psalm 106:38 And shed innocent blood even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

In the list of seven things God hates is this shedding of innocent blood. I think we all know who the most innocent among us are and that is our children. We argue much about the right of women to abort their pregnancies. I think we could all agree that young children and even more so the unborn are innocent of any wrong doing. Children come into our lives and we have to make a choice; will we become parents or will we become monsters.

To those of us with any residue of compassion we would say the unborn are guiltless and deserve no retribution. On the other hand pregnancy shackles women to a life-long commitment that has become fashionable to discard. For these parents the unborn have committed the unpardonable sin of preventing them from living a life totally dedicated to themselves.

During President Trump’s term in office his justice department set a few death row inmates to be executed. These weren’t innocent men, they had been convicted of the most heinous crimes. Those who advocate the death of the unborn readily promote ending the death penalty for the most cruel and wicked of men. Let’s take a brief look at just one of these living monsters and see if somehow a baby is worthy of a cruel death and these “gentlemen” are not.

Alfred Bourgeois was on death row for torturing and beating his two-year-old daughter to death. He was executed on 11 December 2020. He had molested and beaten her several times before. It’s truly disturbing that there were those who knew it and didn’t take measures to stop these unthinkable crimes. The final incident was in his truck. He took her and repeatedly bashed her head against the dash and window resulting in her death.

Bourgeois had been on death row for fifteen years which isn’t unusual in our justice system. We support evil men for years, pay for their appeals, and if they live out their life sentences, we pay for their health problems till they die a natural death.

His daughter Jakaren had no care, received no justice, her little life dismissed by a society that wars against children. Since Roe v Wade we’ve ended sixty million pregnancies. For many, children have become a curse and not a blessing. One could say it would have been better for Jakaren to have been aborted instead of suffering such horrible abuse.

Whilst it’s true that most children have their lives snuffed out in the first month or two of conception, many later term children suffer brutal deaths while hidden out of site in their mother’s womb.

I know there are many unwanted children but using a contraceptive so brutal as abortion demonstrates how we have drifted away from the moorings of civilized society and are ever drawing near to the pagan past.

Evil men do evil things. That can’t be stopped, but it’s up to good men and women to say something and do something and not be so casually concerned with the plight of the abused and neglected in our world.

Diversity and inclusion are pretty concepts of this brave new world but the equity delivered is of no comfort to the innocent for the life of Alfred is of far more value than the life of his daughter. As we know, people suffer when good men do nothing. There’s a whole lot of nothing going on.

Psalm 144; 10 and 15 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings; who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword. Happy is that people, that is in such a case; yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.

It would of course be best to read the whole chapter but these two are kind of “bookends” to an understanding of our living on earth. Scripture told us to pray for our leaders. The question is, pray for what? Salvation. The story of the many kings of Israel is for our instruction and consideration; when the kings were saved (looking to God for counsel), the nation was blessed and the people were happy.

The same remains true today. We pray for our leaders, not that they would be successful in their wicked ambitions, but to come to the place where they repent of their sins and seek counsel from the Lord.

Politics will remain dirty as long as men take counsel from educated, godless, self-serving people. We pray they would be saved for the purpose of blessing God and through that, blessing our nation.