A Dark Day

Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;   Isaiah 44:24-25

Today was a dark day,
rainy and cloudy,
windy and cold,
gloomy and sinister,
all day long.

I felt like I wanted
to do something,
but I didn’t know what,
sometimes it feels
as though this is the
story of my life:

dark days and
not knowing what
to do.

I saw a specialist yesterday
about my herniated disk,
he suggested trying a nerve block
to relieve the pain,
he doesn’t know if it will work,
but it beats the alternatives,
so I’m going to go with it.

I watched a show about Hitler
on the military channel,
it was about his rise to power
and the extraordinary events
which took place
to make it happen,
it almost seemed supernatural,
which is exactly what it was;

monsters like him
only exist
because God allows it.

While watching
the thought occurred
that his whole purpose
for existence
was to put the Jewish people
through a great refining trial
before being allowed
to return to their homeland,
and that perhaps
the whole purpose of America
becoming a nation
almost 200 years earlier,
was to make it possible
for Hitler’s eventual defeat
and pave the way
for God’s chosen people
to return to their promised land,
just like perhaps
the purpose of the Roman Empire
was to provide the method by which
fulfillment of a 700 year old prophecy
of the Messiah dying on a tree
could be fulfilled,
and that the subsequent news
of His resurrection could be spread
throughout the known world of the time,
through the technology of Roman roads
and transportation systems;

perhaps?

Of course, I’m sure
scholars and experts,
those so much wiser than I,
would laugh at such a notion,
but then it wouldn’t be
the first time
God has used seemingly
unrelated and unimaginable plans
to confound
the wise and knowledgeable;

would it?

Who would have thought
that a rag tag
band of uneducated
fishermen and peasants,
would confound and confuse
the educated and wise men
of their day,
by witnessing and testifying
to the greatest event
in the history of mankind?

Who could have imagined it?
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