Do you remember when your complexion began to change, and the ‘dreaded’ pimples began to appear? The complexion of our nation has been in the process of changing and we have pimples all over our face that are coming to a head.
Like an anxious young person, we are embarrassed about our looks, and we are doing all we can to cover up our pimples. We are scrubbing them, popping them, and applying pressure to them to remove the puss.
Then we try to find ways to cover them up by applying cream, makeup, or rouge to hide the blemishes; but our face shows the presence of our pimples pitted with pox.
Do you remember how embarrassed you felt?
I am not sure that we, as a nation, feel embarrassment.
We have political acne. The news story grows; a head appears; we seek ways to cover up the blemish; we scrub, clean, apply pressure as needed; pop the pimple, and remove the puss.
In November 2019, I blogged a series of articles in which I identified our nation as a A Nation of P.O.W.’s.
The substance of blogs pointed out that because of the virulent rhetoric that the nation was being bombarded with daily, it was making us a ‘prisoner of words’.
According to freedictionary.com, virulent is defined as: “characterized by, causing, or promoting the rapid onset of severe illness. Used of a disease or toxin.” (Covid is an example of a virulent disease.) The definition continues-“extremely hostile or malicious: virulent criticism; a virulent bigot.” It is also defined as: 1. actively poisonous; intensely noxious. 2. highly infective. 3. violently or spitefully hostile; 4. intensely bitter, spiteful or malicious.
On second thought, to compare it to facial acne now seems somewhat mild. It is probably more correct to call virulent rhetoric a vocal cancer.
Consider the following examples from New Thesaurus in the same website.
virulent- harsh or corrosive in tone: an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose; a barrage of acid comments; bitter words; blistering criticism; caustic jokes about political assassination, talk show hosts and medical ethics; a sulfuric denunciation; a vitriolic critique.”
With little thought, if you have been aware of the political landscape and the political abusive conversations during the last decade, especially the past 6 years both political parties have been engaged in spewing out destructive words seeking to influence and destroy their opposition’s opinion.
What has been said by our politicians has been parroted by the media in print, on talk-shows; news broadcasts, and social media. We have experienced a verbal circus.
The result has been a plethora of words, so construed, convoluted, and manipulated that this nation has been incarcerated mentally, creating a process of political brainwashing that has made us a nation of prisoners of words.
However, our pimples are coming to a head. They are exposed and being popped. It’s messy, ugly, and traumatic; but it is necessary.
As we proceed through this process of cleaning up our political acne, we are going to be subjected to a continual diatribe of verbal rhetoric between today, May 4, 2022, and the November midterm election.
There will be a continuation of political verbiage to divert the voting public away from the real issues of ‘acne’ that matter or create a political scenario that becomes a sebaceous boil.
What happened on May 2, 2022, is such a sebaceous boil. As you are aware, there was a ‘leak’ regarding the upcoming SCOTUS decision regarding Roe v. Wade.
Someone is purposely stirring the ‘pot of controversy’, to incite virulent rhetoric. Someone wants to incite the voices of dissent, create anger, and discontent. The ‘leak’ has provided the fodder for the media, the talk-shows, and social media to vent their political views, pontificate the future, and seek to rile the voting public mentally to align themselves to vote in November.
This type of behavior is going to continue to escalate throughout the next 6 months. You can count on it. Can it be stopped? Absolutely.
As a follower of Christ, I choose to focus on Him, read His Word, pray, and intercede for our nation. I believe that the Lord is going to expose the evil that has been unleased against this nation. We are in a spiritual war. We are a nation that is a prisoner of words because we have forsaken the Word of God as a nation. I am not claiming that we are a Christian nation; but we are a nation that has been blessed by God since its foundation because we believed in the Sovereignty of God and the Judeo-Christian principles of His Word. We have not done everything right. We are a guilty nation deserving judgement.
I would like to turn your attention to Psalm 64. (See my post of Oct. 21,2021, The A.R.R.O.W. of God) God has released His arrow against those who have verbally attacked this nation and contrived evil plans. God’s ARROW is A Righteous Revelation Of Wrongdoing.
Change is coming to our nation. God will bring about that change. Our political pimples are going to popped. Our acne is going to be healed.
Some may be asking themselves, what is that change going to look like? Actually, I have asked myself the same question. I will say this, the Church needs to be reminded of 1 Peter 4:1-19. I would like to conclude with the text from 1 Peter 4:7-19 (Tree of Life Version)
“Now the end of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober minded for prayer. Above all, keep your love for one another constant, for “love covers a multitude of sins.” Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of the many-sided grace of God. Whoever speaks, let it be as one speaking the utterances of God. Whoever serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies. So in all things may God be glorified through Messiah Yeshua–all glory and power to Him forever and ever! Amen.
Loved ones, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal taking place among you to test you–as though something strange were happening to you. Instead, rejoice insofar as you share in the sufferings of Messiah, so that at the revelation of His glory you may also rejoice and be glad. If you are insulted for the name of Messiah, you are fortunate, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. For let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or evildoer or as a troublemaker. but if anyone suffers for following Messiah, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this name. For the time has come for judgment to begin with the house of God. If judgment begins with us first, what will be the end for those who disobey the Good News of God?
Now, if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what shall become of the ungodly and the sinner?
So then, those who suffer according to God’s will–let them trust their souls to a faithful Creator while continuing to do good.”
Blessings, a brother in Christ, deo
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