For those who have not worked it out, I am on holiday, and it is quite clear that I should have had a holiday about three months ago. My usual pattern is take three weeks in summer, then a week around the school holidays: but the kids are not in school holidays and if I work clinically for more than about six months I get irritable.
I know I am out of balance when I cannot read good books or non fiction, and pull out the comfort reading: John Ringo, Larry Correia… and when I stop sleeping. Lets say I was down to five hours, and am now catching up. I need to. There is summer planning happening here over the next few days.
One of the things that holidays do is make you consider what you have been doing. Correctly and incorrectly. This applies to us as a nation and individually.
In all seasons we need to turn to God. Who never takes a holiday from healing us.
“Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.
Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”(Hosea 6:1-3 ESV)
On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered. And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him. But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And he rose and stood there. And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?” And after looking around at them all he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
(Luke 6:6-11 ESV)
There is a lot happening now. A lot. Even though I’m not monitoring the news, just looking at the newspaper’s website shows you that things are crumbling. It is relatively OK now here in the South Island, but it is far worse in Europe and the United States.
It is time to return to the faith of the past. The past should not be strange to us. It is our heritage and our live. For we are in tribes and nations. We should not fall for the error of globalism, and disavow our past, for that is the error of Babel.
It is better to care for your house and help others where they are if you are able.
“The Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ is the highest form of civilization. The anti-civilization represented by anti-Christ is the opposite of that. So if the kingdom of Christ is righteousness, the anti-civilization is evil and injustice. If the kingdom of Christ is peace, the Kingdom of anti-Christ is conflict. If the Kingdom of Christ is joy in the Holy Spirit, anti-civilization is misery.”
In a September 4 American Thinker article titled, “Globalism: the Religion of Empire” theologian Fay Voshell noted similarly that “[l]ike the Christian vision of the universal Kingdom of God, the religion of secular globalism claims universality, but is an earthly minded substitute for the Church universal. The Christian vision sees the Church universal as God’s kingdom ruling the earth. The religion of globalism sees an earthly, utopian world order in which all men pay allegiance to elite priests who rule over a World City without national borders.”
That lack of borders, Henley continued, is particularly problematic, “because within borders a particular civilization can choose to uphold those principles that we [as Christians] believe are at the heart of what makes a civilization a civilization.”
Butin all things, turn to the Lord. Do not trust this elite, they have a false religion that saves no one. Turn to God, and him alone remain. Regardless of the season.