Psalm 37 gave me hope this morning.
Do not fret because of evildoers, Be not envious toward
wrongdoers. For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb. Trust in the LORD and do
good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the
desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it. He will bring forth
your righteousness as the light And your judgment as the
noonday. Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because
of the man who carries out wicked schemes. Cease from
anger and forsake wrath; Do not fret; it leads only
to evildoing. For evildoers will be cut off, But those
who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land. Yet a
little while and the wicked man will be no more; And you
will look carefully for his place and he will not be
there. But the humble will inherit the land And will
delight themselves in abundant prosperity.
The wicked plots against the righteous And gnashes at him
with his teeth. The Lord laughs at him, For He sees his
day is coming. The wicked have drawn the sword and bent
their bow To cast down the afflicted and the needy, To
slay those who are upright in conduct. Their sword will
enter their own heart, And their bows will be broken.
Better is the little of the righteous Than the
abundance of many wicked. For the arms of the wicked
will be broken, But the LORD sustains the righteous.
The LORD knows the days of the blameless, And their
inheritance will be forever. They will not be ashamed in
the time of evil, And in the days of famine they will have
abundance. But the wicked will perish; And the enemies of
the LORD will be like the glory of the pastures, They vanish—
like smoke they vanish away. The wicked borrows
and does not pay back, But the righteous is gracious and
gives. For those blessed by Him will inherit the land,
But those cursed by Him will be cut off.
Judg 7:2,7aHere's a little something for all of the Palin hating JINOs out there:
And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'
Then the LORD said to Gideon, "By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand.
Gn 17:15-16b
The G-d said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
"and she shall be a mother of nations
"For an atheist to reject religion means only that he has failed to understand it, precisely. A confession of atheism is simply an honest confession of ignorance of any realities that transcend the human ego, nothing more, nothing less. And why argue with a man who not only clings to ignorance, but is proud of the fact?"
“..For reason is only a faculty of knowing something indirectly in the absence of direct vision, while God is known directly, the same way one knows one is alive, perceives reality, or is aware of free will. In order to see something, it is not necessary to logically prove the existence of sight. Many of the most important truths are known simply by their “superabundance of clarity,” by pure intellect, not by the reason which is its servant.
Reason is not Intelligence in itself, only an instrument of intelligence. Few things create more mischief than reason in the hands of an unintelligent or immoral wonker. .[..]Not for nothing did Richard Weaver say that “every attack upon religion is inevitably an attack upon mind.” Naturally there are many forms of stupid religion, for there is nothing touched by humans wonkers that cannot be made stupid. But at least religion as such does not exclude the possibility and priority of Intelligence, and therefore, Truth. ...” ~ Gagdad Bob The Absolute Science of the Center and the Darwinist Religion of the Periphery