SAWING BRANCHES & CONSEQUENCES

 

As is often the case at the start of time periods, I was reflecting on some Biblical verses earlier this morning.

I was thinking about how The Message translates the passage about 'the sin against the Holy Spirit'. It gets to the main point that Jesus is making: that those who deny the power of the Spirit are, in the context of Jesus's message, sawing off the tree-branch on which they sit and, thus, set themselves up for a seriously great fall.

Then, I thought about that sort of wicked stupidity in some more earthly contexts as well. The application of this teaching to the current pandemic is SO obvious I hardly need mention it; am I not right? But far more than that is how we just go on devouring the earth and so much on and in it. AND how the counterfeit right-wingers who call themselves 'Christians' while daily insulting Jesus, eating away his message from within and making those of us who walk the walk look like hypocrites like themselves, say that we need to devour more and faster so as to hasten Jesus's return.

I got news for y'all: you're sawing off the branch on which all of us--all life on earth--sit and urging us to join you in doing so! But doing that will NOT hasten Jesus's return in glory. Why? I suggest to you and all my readers that, if we continue in such wicked and deliberate stupidity, there will only be forgiveness for us 1) after a probably lengthy period of time in which God allows us to taste the consequences of such evil in much fuller measure than has yet been the case and 2) showing some seriously real repentance! I say that God will NOT sweep down like Superman before we hit the ground!

No, I say He will allow us to hit the ground without a bounce and be there only when we moan and wail how 'we've fallen and we can't get up!' Then He will come to us not as Superman but as the Merciful Healer He is.

Remember the hymn 'Come Ye Sinners, Poor And Needy'? That's how God sent His Salvation to us all, as one of us. Not as a being from another planet with superpowers to swoop down and save us from our wicked and stupid greed! No, the Godhead will allow us to taste much more of the gall and wormwood we have made ourselves before He lifts us up after the cataclysm which will come if we don't change our greedy ways bigly, to borrow someone else's word. Think about it, all y'all fascist text-proofers without any grasp of God's Holy Spirit!