Repeating History

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little tired of all the saber-rattling between the sexes and the various closet skeletons being thrown about. I’m totally confused as to the purpose of such actions because the implications are so numerous. Is it for fame, fortune, defamation of character, revenge or just plain retribution? Lord knows we all have a skeleton or two in our closet, and personally, I gave the key to my Lord many years ago never wanting anyone to get in and never more wanting to hide anything again. It’s things we all have to live with personally and pray they remain safeguarded in our closet. When someone breaks in and drags a skeleton out I have to think a righteous life is not being lived and the Lord is giving chance to confession and repentance. Not all accusations are true, just outrageous malicious character attacks, and through prayer the Lord will eventually bring the perpetrator to face the truth and humble them. It is so sad that we have to witness these sandbox squabbles when there is so much more at stake in this country. God is being uprooted and America is dying at the hands of the disseminator

 George Santayana (December 16. 1863 in Madrid, Spain – September 26, 1952 in Rome, Italy) was a philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist. In his book “The Life of Reason” (1905-1906) Vol. I, “Reason in Common Sense” he writes: “Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.” * “That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.” * “Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.” * “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Vol. II, “Reason in Society” he writes: “The highest form of vanity is love of fame.” * “When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.” (Wikiquote.com) Sad to say, we are repeating history.

[2 Kings 21:12-15] Just insert a few modern day “Promised Land” locales and we could be looking at the wrath of God in this country. “Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of America, says: ‘I am going to bring such disaster on Washington, D.C. and the United States that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. I will stretch out over Washington, D.C. the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe out Washington, D.C. as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will be looted and plundered by all their foes, because they have done evil in my eyes and have provoked me to anger from the day their forefathers came out of England until this day.’” It’s really not that far fetched when we look at the historical facts of the fall of Rome and other like kind empires we are emulating, thinking our way of life is better, and this time we’re going to get it right in spite of God’s truth. “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisee’s, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence ...First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside will be clean” (Matthew 23:25-26). Have you privately confessed your sins before God cleaning the inside of your closet?