Life Matters, November 24, 2021

This Thanksgiving Day 2021, we have a lot to be thankful for. We can even be thankful for our present POTUS (President of the United States) because he fully woke us up to what a woke agenda looks like in real time. We can't say we weren't warned. Our 45th President warned us. We were warned by then-candidate Biden's own words. In what appeared a desperate attempt to appeal to the wokeian crowd by being woke himself, Biden gave affirming responses to a dizzying disarray of ideas ranging from accepting illegal immigrants to accepting all manner of abnormal immoralities, which God in His Word calls out to be perverse.

Is our President compromised to an enemy of the United States determined to destroy us from within? Is he like the prophet Balaam who taught Balak, King of Moab, to weaken the Israelites by sending the young Moabitish women into the Israelite camps? To seduce the young men and teach them to worship idols? When the resolve of these young men became weakened by misplaced worship, as they removed themselves from the blessing of God, they became easy prey for their Moabitish antagonists. (Josephus) From the perspective of morality and policy our present POTUS is proving to be a national security threat to the very country he is charged with leading. And now we are to trust that he has our good in mind with vaccine mandates? I don't think so. Never trust a government who gets this pushy about what we accept into these bodies that God gave us. "My body, my choice" is the leftist cry about killing the most dependent among us, the unborn babies. But when the subject turns from killing babies to "taking the jab" then the push becomes like "your body, my choice.” I don't profess to know what "they" are up to, but I don't trust whatever it is. I didn't find it so hard to trust President Donald J. Trump, who, even though proud of his "Operation Warp Speed" simply told the American people that it would be available for whoever wants it with a plan for the most vulnerable to get it first.

God was merciful in giving us four years of Donald J. Trump. The contrast between good and bad leadership is shocking and stark enough that even the sleepy are waking up. And hopefully not just waking up to inflation, energy, immigration, foreign policy etc., mismanagement, but also waking up as the parents of Loudoun County, Virginia, to the gross immorality overtaking, destroy­ing, and distracting government agencies from doing their jobs to being dead “woke.” And dead wrong.

But on this Thanksgiving Day may our thoughts not stagnate on the negativity of the present administration.

We have a lot of positive things to be thankful for. A bountiful harvest again. The water table rising. Though under the mud. A reasonable hope to finish harvest before or after freeze-up. Family to love and to be loved by. Trustworthy business suppliers of goods and services, good customers, good neighbors, farmers, ranchers, homemakers, and those who work in transport. My family and I continue to add to our list of friends among whom we work and do business with and are thankful for each one. We can be thankful that Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday set aside to thank God for His goodness. We can be thankful that "all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” (Rom. 8:28)

We can be thankful for the Rittenhouse acquittal, for the exposé of Russian col­lusion about the "Russian Collusion" hoax and for the ongoing investigation. "The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine,” quoth the sage, we can be thankful to live in a country that has not entirely lost its sense of Old Testament law and justice. Still, let us always strive to be more like Jesus and to blend with His redemptive purpose. May our thankfulness for God's grace con­tinually transcend the cares of this life. A joy-filled Happy Thanksgiving to all! Life Matters!