Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem
Because I live in a mobile home in a wooded area, I have a bit of a "mouse problem". With all the sticky-traps, "humane" traps, pheromone-based repellents, ultrasonic devices, Peppermint oil repellent, etc, the best solution seems to be the "Snap-Trap" made famous by cartoons. However, I love cheese too much to waste it on mice, so peanut butter is my bait of choice. (Don't suggest I get a cat, as Penny would be appalled!). Every Autumn, like clockwork, the mice show up in the lower kitchen cabinets, and I loathe them.
Now, when I first found out about the mice, I got sticky traps. However the mice dealt with these by dragging them away, chewing off the corner of the trap, or (HORRORS!) chewing off their own foot and leaving it behind. Ugh! Then I tried the repellents. The mice ATE them. I tried poison, but that was the worst thing because then the mice would die somewhere under the mobile home resulting in a plague of FLIES. Yeeaackk!
Finally, I got the old-fashioned snap-traps. Of course, this means I have to bait them, carefully put them in place, and dispose of the corpse the next morning. But that seems to work better than all the other methods...and...NO FLIES!
When a perfectly picnic is ruined by flies, we often wonder why God would allow such a creature to exist. They are particularly nasty, and buzz around garbage, dead things, and poop, so one can only imagine what diseases they carry. Flies are particularly useful to forensic pathologists, because the development of their larvae determines the time of death. (I know...eyew). Without flies CONSUMING the waste of death, we would have no room on the planet for the LIVING. And so, flies do have a purpose. They are Nature's Disposal Team. I get it. I understand.
BUT JUST STAY AWAY FROM ME!
God's judgement upon Pharaoh was also against the gods of Egypt. The Nile was a "god" and so it was turned into blood and produced frogs. The Egyptians even worshiped a beetle that rolled little balls of dung and laid eggs in it, and the resulting larvae fed upon the dung upon hatching. The Egyptians saw the beetle as the symbol of a god, rolling the sun across the sky every morning to divide the day from the night, and so they deified the creature. We still see the image of the "sacred" Scarab Beetle all through the centuries of Egyptian Art.
While beetles, gnats, flies, and even mosquitoes are essential to the environment, when they get "out of balance" they become a PLAGUE. God didn't have to create a new "Monster" to judge the gods of Egypt. All He had to do was throw the balance out of whack to WHACK the fake gods and those who worshiped them.
This is where the Nature-Worshipers make their big mistake. In trying to eliminate one problem completely, they create worse ones. The proliferation of wind-turbine blades, piling up in land fills, that won't decay, is a perfect example of this. I am sure you can think of other examples, especially with the current situation with the coronavirus. Sometimes, the "cure" is worse than the "disease." Well...gotta go now. I have some mouse-corpses to dispose of!
Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.
"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)
God Bless America!
Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.
This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.
Hallelujah and Amen
ML/LTOS
