Opus 2022-007: Angel Report

I am staying with my grandchildren and as I was being thankful this morning my guardian angel came to mind.  I am a believer in guardian angels.  

Psa 91:11  For He will give His angels charge concerning you, To guard you in all your ways.

This is repeated in Luke 4:10.  I used the NASB because it uses the word “guard”.  When I think of my guardian angel my mind takes a squirrel moment.  For instance, how do you leave your guardian angel cookies?  Do they like cookies?  And so forth.
Since I have a guardian angel it follows that my grandchildren have them too.  It occurred to me that they are doubling up, mine came with me and theirs is here.  It brings a whole bunch of squirrel questions to mind.

I wonder if they have ever met.  Do they need to be introduced?  Do all guardian angels know each other?

I assume that we were assigned the best available.  Or it could be that they are genuinely equal, after all God did make them.

I wonder if it will give them time off as they share vigils.

I wonder if my imagination is running away with me.

It is a great way to have it happen.

Happy New Year.

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Opus 2022-006: Wild Foal Wisdom

As I write I am reading through Job.  I am finding that I am old enough to read and benefit from things that put me to sleep years ago.

I came across one of those verses that seem to speak wisdom without adulteration.  I am not willing to make doctrinal points out of them.  These types of verses are usually taken out of context.  They just seem to sit up and say, “Look at me.”

(Job 11:12 NAS77) "And an idiot will become intelligent When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.

You have heard such statements as “When Hell freezes over” and “a snowballs chance in Hell.”  Here I give you a similar statement that would be suitable of G rated audiences.

Many candidates come to mind when I look at this verse.  I think the category of “idiot” is wide.  

When I get a little more serious about this I would extend it to other types of people.  I would suggest that child molesters can not be changed.  They might repent and be genuinely sorry but I don’t think they can get over the brokenness in their inner being.  I would accept that God’s grace can work the miracle but I don’t think we as a society can count on them being honest about it.  Serial killers would be in the same category.  Ted Bundy comes to mind.  I listened to an interview that he gave Jim Dobson.  I believe that he was genuinely redeemed by the blood of the lamb.  He said that in spite of that he deserved to die.  I salute him for that.

We are to love.  We are to forgive.  We are not to be fools.  There is a reason the Bible has a death penalty.  We should consider that we are also to love the people who stand to be damaged by people that we want to go soft on.

Love may forgive but it does not condone and enable.

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Opus 2022-005: Subtlety - God Level

Recently we had an answer to prayer.  It was specific and definite, or was it?

My son in law was caught in the jaws of the vaccine mandates.  He was locked into a government mandate and was facing a decision to give up his retirement, health care for his family and his good name because the behemoth of government wanted to throw its weight around.  We have heard the demand to be jabbed.  We have heard there are exemptions for religious reasons.  If you are in the crosshairs you also know that they are not giving those exemptions.  An article in the Gateway Pundit says all religious exemptions have been denied in the Marines.

He filled out paper work, made appointments and we prayed.

It turns out that there was a regulation that brought about the desire we sought.  My question is, “Was that regulation in existence before I prayed and no one was aware of it or did God go back and insert it so it would be there when needed?”  

Does it make any difference?  We will never know how God works out all the knots that need to be dealt with.  We just know that He does.

I have a lot of questions about prayer but we are told to pray and it makes a difference.

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Opus 2022-004: Holiday Merry-Go-Round

In the First World we are used to the mantra, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.”  It isn’t that way in the rest of the world.

In areas where the Orthodox churches are predominate it would be “Happy New Year and a Merry Christmas.”  

In Africa it would not be “Happy Kwanza and a happy new year.”  In southern Africa it would still be “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” followed by the question, “What is a Kwanza?”  Northern Africa being predominately Muslim would not celebrate Christmas.

And of course you would need to make allowances for the traditional New Years of different cultures such as Jewish and Chinese New Years.

May God’s blessing rest on you in the coming year.

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Opus 2022-003: Eliteicrom Variant

The minions of Communism think they are safe.  They are in for a rude awakening.  The thug attacks on expensive shopping areas are an indication of what is coming.  If they had been paying attention they would have seen pictures of notes stuck on windows proudly informing the rioters that the owner of the business is on their side.  Of course the note is attached to a window that is shattered in front of an empty display.  Criminal thugs, rioters and Communists don’t stop to consider your feelings, or it could be that they just can’t read.  Liberals think they are immune from the coming social holocaust just as they think that a mask makes them immune from a virus.

This is nothing new.  It is a characteristic of socialist thinking.  In his 1944 discussion of socialist thinking, F.A. Hayek said,

“If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this justly and equitably.” page 243

Liberals are so out of touch with cause and effect that they think they will always be on top of the pile and the unwashed masses will be overjoyed at the willingness of their overlords to take an interest in their welfare.  

I can envision the theme song of these disillusioned fools when the van shows up to escort them to their next position in the hierarchy.  It is a song out of my past and it’s mantra is,

“They’re coming to take me away.”

I hope we are still here to wave to them as they pass.

Hayek, F.A.  The Road to Serfdom, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1944, 1994.

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Opus 2022-002: Headlines: Micky Mouse Club Minus One

A few years ago my wife bought an old Lexus RX 300.  Suddenly I began to see a Lexus on every block.  Or should I say I began to notice them.  I don’t know that there was a sudden increase in the model and brand, but I became aware of them.  It was an interesting phenomena of no importance.  

A similar phenomena is going on with sudden deaths.  What brings this to my mind was reading a headline on the Gateway Pundit about a star of the Mickey Mouse Club who had dropped dead suddenly.  I watched the Micky Mouse Club as a kid but I was first gen.  I did not recognize the face in the picture but I checked it out anyway.  She died of a cardiac arrest which had put her in a coma for an undisclosed period of time.
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What is there to raise awareness?  A sudden heart attack in someone who is relatively young.  No details given about other factors.  Does it sound familiar?  Did she have a history of heart trouble?  Had she recently been vaccinated?  It is always interesting how little information the so-called news media give us.

Are we seeing a new pattern or has this kind of thing been going all our lives.  You could almost put out a magazine listing all the people who are suddenly dying of heart attacks.  I have never bothered to read them but I have seen links to lists of professional soccer athletes collapsing on the field with heart problems.  You may have read about the editor for the New York Times who dropped dead almost immediately after getting a jab.  Politicians, movie stars and unreported common folks could be added to the list.

Is it like the Lexus sightings or are we seeing the tip of the predicted die-off from the side effects of the safe vaccines?

My hope is that it is coincidence and hyper sensitivity.  My fear is that we are seeing just the beginning.  Maybe I should not say fear.  I have not been vaccinated and trust that God will give me every day He has planned for me.  A better word would be concern for those who will die or be disabled by the second major political disease of my adult life.

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Opus 2022-001: Jump Start

As I was looking at the new year I found myself wondering about a verse for the year.  With all the panic going on in the media and government I felt like we needed to be reminded about the call to not live in craven fear.  It might be well to remember that fear gets both positive and negative press in the Bible.  In reality there are two very different meanings.

The conclusion is that we are to have a hierarchy in our fear.  The proper fear is a foundation for a successful life.  I fear electricity.  I fear wasps.  I fear a lot of things, and so I should.  If they are not treated with respect they can damage or kill.  That kind of fear does not keep me from turning on the lights, going out side or many other things because the fear I have teaches me respect and control.

Thus our lives begin with fear, the fear of the Lord.  The book of Proverbs keeps repeating that phrase starting with,

(Pro 1:7 KJV)  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

and goes to,

(Pro 23:17 KJV)  Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

I will let you do your own research.  The best known products of the fear of the Lord:  Wisdom, knowledge, understanding.  It goes beyond that.

But there is another verse that I want to focus on this year.

(2Ti 1:7 KJV)  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

A little comparison might be in order to get the depth here.  Look at the NASB,

(2Ti 1:7 NAS77) For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

Notice that fear can be read as being timid.  Notice that a sound mind has the idea of discipline.

Those are good strengths for me to cultivate this year.

Grace and peace.

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