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;

it felt like there was

something I needed to do,

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 talked about his rise to power

and the extraordinary events

that made 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 perhaps his whole purpose

was to put the Jewish people

through a great refining trial,

a test,

before being allowed

to return to their ancient homeland,

it made me wonder if 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 create the circumstances

through which a 700 year old prophecy,

that the Messiah would die on a tree

could be fulfilled,

and that the news of His resurrection

could be spread through the known world of the time,

by the technology of Roman roads

and transportation systems,

perhaps?

of course, I’m sure

scholars and experts

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 wise men of their day,

witnessing and testifying

to the greatest event

in the history of mankind?

who could have imagined it?

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