Opus 2011-223, Links: Dog Days

One of the benefits of reading some blogs is that they give the Holy Spirit a chance to speak.  I read and enjoy and in the midst of the reading my mind takes off on a tangent.  Georges Grouse did that for me in his post called “Dog Days.”  You might want to read it if you have not done so, but he made me think of getting rid of wasps and hornets.  I was forced to take that action recently.  Bees I consider friends or at least believers in peaceful co-existence.  Wasps and hornets are the terrorists of the insect world.

I believe in reading directions.  This is doubly true when dealing with vicious insects.  The can I held in my hand said you get them when they are sleeping.  I knew that but I wanted to be reminded.  So I followed the directions.  It must have worked because I lived to tell about it.  I have memories of those cartoons with clouds of angry creatures following Elmer Fudd.

Satan seems to have read the can.  He knows that the best way to get to God’s people is to get them to go to sleep or at least be dormant.  He does everything he can to get us that way.  We often help.  When we are on mental recess he works to water down what little awareness we have left.  He tells us that sin is cultural conditioning, not God defined.  He tells us that words are not important.  He tells us that a loving God would not act the way the Bible says He will act.

This works in politics too.  We get agitated but the ruling classes know that if they can wait it out our attention will turn to the weather or sports very soon. 

Be alert.  Be aware.  Read the Book and think about what it says.  Compare what it says to every event that faces you.  The drive home isn’t over until you pull into the driveway.

homo unius libri