God is on a roll... Hallelujah!

When Ecclesiastes said that ‘everything that has happened before is happening again’, and a season for everything’ I wondered; was he bipolar, schizophrenic or just too wise to understand his message on pure human stances…

Then I understood, that he and I have something in common- we are crazy, zealous and unyeilding in our desire to know and understand God and to make sense of the events of our times. The common thread in our thoughts is that he experienced those events and God inspired him to document them so that when I came along, I would have something to relate to and link his times with my times. Isn’t that amazing!

Next came Isaiah proclaiming what God did to restore the nations, I was appalled at how God used brimstone and fire to make his point: "I alone am God!

Wow!

It begins to make sense to me; that in order for God to restore, first there has to be discord and disorder; so in fact all the upheaval is a sign that God is on a roll!

Psalm 33: 10 seems to be very appropriate for our times: “God frustrates the purposes of the nations; he keeps them from carrying out their plans”. Plans like, those the very policy developers who swore, maybe even using the bible, oaths to put democracy back in politics which instead, violate political promises and agreements. Financial budget to restore economical equilibrium and social policy to reflect the respect and equality of human rights and equality are useless to the people and worthless to the nation and its economical status; healthcare means more discoveries of death threats-also known as diseases. Fair trade is synonymous with inflation; civil service is an opportunity for servants to bite the hand that feeds them. Confidence is put in research for the invention of magic pill, quick fixes; dog-eat-dog-survival of the fittest mentality of democracy; shatter-proof statutes; globalization of industry signals and symbolizes murder of the ‘little people’- all to no avail simple because what God did in the ancient days of Babylon, Israel and Jerusalem he is doing it even now in every nations that fails to invite him in the whole works.

And then God’s plans some of which is sprinkled here and there in the book of Isaiah will endure. Plans like; “a day is coming when human pride will be ended and human arrogance destroyed. Then the Lord alone will be exalted. On that day the Lord Almighty will humble everyone who is powerful, everyone who is proud and conceited” Isaiah 2:11,12; this was so important a message to take heed of that a few verses down 17-18 this message is repeated and the chapter ends with verse 22 “ put no more confidence in mortals. Incidentally, this verse is also repeated in Psalm 118:9; Psalm 146:3. Back to Isaiah… in chapter 11begining at verse 5 and pausing at verse 8: “He will rule his people with justice and integrity. Wolves and sheep will live together in peace, and leopards will lie down with goats. Calves and lion cubs will feed together, and children will take care of them. Cows and bears will eat together, and their calves and cubs will lie down in peace. Lions will eat straw as cattle do. Even a baby will not be harmed if it plays near a poisonous snakes.”

There’s a lot of figurative speech that I feel applies to how all people will live even though in the bible it references mostly animals… I feel that is symbolizes human mentality and personality. In one word- attitude- human attitude towards each person will transform.

I know the daily busyness of living can distract the human spirit from spending time in connect the past with the present and use that to assist in forecasting the future and I thank God for the day I decided to take heed to the book called the bible and us it wisely; for that, I need to invite wisdom to tame my mind and hush the voices that contradict and conflict with truth. That takes me right back to Isaiah 2: That’s one of the things I find about pure consciousness…God is always on a roll and for that I say Hallelujah!

In the meantime, I enjoy now, knowing that the day is coming when the oppressed will be oppressed no more; prisoner’s will be prisoners no more; I feel that word prisoner is totally irrelevant with the meaning as a place where lawbreakers are kept; it is a mental gaol that will be broken down; and ultimately, there will be no need for barracks or maybe, the ones who built the prisons will themselves now be the ones who occupy the space between those walls!