Encouragement in Wicked Times

             This is such a good article, I can't resist sharing it.   I am trying to strike a balance in my own thought life.  I fluctuate from extreme agitation and worry over the state of the world down to a numbness that shuts it all up in an emotional neutrality that leaves me wondering if I care enough!   I ask Father God to give me His love for the lost world because I seem to be empty of any compassion or hope for the human race at times, especially when saturated with the news stories and the depravity that abounds everywhere.    These days wear me out and I am tired.    I am so glad for Jesus!   In Him I live and move and have my being--He is my everything.

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Two years is not forever. Don’t let Obama, who, after all is really only a figment of his own imagination, make it so. Even under the Caesar of the day, two years is not forever

By Judi McLeod  February 1, 2015  

In a world gone digital,  life on earth’s much more a stage now than it was when William Shakespeare penned his immortal lines:

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

The main difference today is that common man has become the captive audience who finds it all but impossible to escape the never-ending parade of politicians weaving in and out of every day life in instantaneous, never-ending digital form.
Politicians of the day seize each and every opportunity to come before the camera.  They’re always there waxing sympathetic when someone famous passes away or when a catastrophe hits the masses claiming, straight-faced that all of their “thoughts and prayers” are with the grieving loved ones.
All but the incurably gullible know by now that the empty words of today’s politicians, their photo ops, their endless ‘selfies’ do zilch to ease broken hearts or make life any easier for the masses.
There’s only one way to blot the politicians out of your vision and that’s by making your way back to the light and the truth in spite of them.
People are discouraged that they must somehow get through two more years of an upside-down world with the man who caused it still in power, making it seem like forever.

Surviving the next two years in an upside-down world will mean rising above it

Surviving the next two years in an upside-down world will mean rising above it, and getting as close as possible to the Creator.
You—and only you—can propel yourself there and no one can stop your purposeful mental flight to the Almighty. 
Rather than caving in to despair, get ready to take flight.  Take steady aim and rise above it.  Know that the only map for escape comes through constant prayer.  Follow bloodhound-like the trail and stick to it as closely as you would the Star of Bethlehem.
Let no one divert you or take you off track.  Yours is a one man one woman mission that needs neither cheerleader nor audience to take you to the state of mind where you need to be.
Ignore all negative doubts that it can’t be done.  Life on earth, the Valley of Tears, is only a journey towards a salvation already bought and paid for by the Savior.
The Earth, the universe belong not to the politicians but to the Creator.  The only harm that will ever come your way, is the harm He allows to come to you.
The ways of the Lord have always been mysterious.  While evil forces in the visible world threaten to collapse all that is good,  the invisible one is always at work holding it up.
It is true that He never sends you anything you can’t handle.
Fly high.  Fly to the home in your heart and soul with the precision of a homing pigeon.
If you want to survive until reaching January 2017, get ready to take mental flight.
You don’t need a passport or an airline ticket.  All you need to get where you need to be is a steady resolve.
Stop sweating the little things that bring on useless bickering.  Don’t let petty disagreements and arguments sideline you from the main battle.
Don’t let anxiety and threats from worldly politicians mark your time on earth.  Let the sun, the moon and stars mark your time.  Be fully aware and grateful from whence the changes of the season come.  Take notice and rejoice when the robins start landing on your window sill again.
Let nothing untoward disturb you.  Turn away from the static of the television and radio.  Tune in to the messages that count the most, the ones sent in silence to your heart.
While the world is chattering all around you, let your talk be one of fervent prayer.
There are demons roaming the world, but assigned angels like the one at your side, never roams and stays right there with you.
The world is brimful of fools and knaves and always will be.  Predators come and go in every generation and will always continue to claim high office. 
Go about getting up and away from the man in the White House now and all the misery he’s spreading with the same kind of stubborn resolve he uses to get in his next round of golf.
Do not trust in the promises of politicians, trust in yourself and salvation.
Make your spiritual survival, not the corporal one, the one that matters most.
Don’t give up on hoping for a better outcome of a besieged America, just as you would never give up on yourself or your loved ones.  All things in life on Earth pass, including the day of the despot.
You, and not the despot, is eternal.
No matter how defiant the boasts about doing away with America get; no matter how many thousands of times the mainstream media repeat the threat, Obama cannot destroy America, he can only wreak havoc upon it.
When you get to the other side of 2017, there will always be something left, no matter how tattered, to build on.
As wicked men continue to plunge the world into darkness, light a candle in your soul, and never look back toward the darkness.
By lighting the candle in your heart, the darkness will never completely envelop you.
Even in the midst of the trash heaped on every day life by the current pop culture, give the gory a pass and search out the Godly.
Never give up hope for a better day.  That’s what the enemy is hoping you’ll do.
Butterflies flutter, birds take wing, gentle breezes ruffle the green leaves of summer, all winters are followed by spring without the decree or permission of politicians.
No howling wind, no evil whisper can blow out the candle you light in your own soul, where it remains steadfast unless you yourself snuff it out.
Natural law gifted you with instinct radar.  Use that radar to find the good and use it to fly clear over the heads of self-serving squabbling politicians and cable television’s non-stop talking heads.
Ebola and Bird Flu are not going to get you, taxes are not going to break you, and not even ISIS is going to fell you.
The United Nations has been churning out dire warnings on upcoming killer pandemics since the days of your great grandfather.  You are not going to die until it is your time.
Stop complaining about the weather.  It passes like the seasons and always has.  Like the song says “let your smile be your umbrella”.
You don’t need the permission of any government to trust in the Lord.
Avoid propaganda and it will ultimately die the death that inevitably comes from falling on deaf ears.
Close your ears to all bigots.  You’ve known what’s right and what’s wrong ever since grade school.
Mind your own business.  Maintain a healthy skepticism about what is truth and what are falsehoods.
Sleep in your own bed, and let night prayers be your last words of every passing day.  Share whatever you can with others.
Do only what would make your mother proud.  Be kind to all around you, even if the only kindness you can afford to give is a smile or an encouraging word.
Live today as if it is your last, a habit that ensures you are on the right road along life’s long and arduous journey.
Two years is not forever.  Don’t let Obama, who,  after all is really only a figment of his own imagination,  make it so.

RSS Feed for Judi McLeod Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and Glenn Beck.