2/5/19
I
shuffled to the kitchen, at two. Couldn’t sleep.
Coffee,
prayer, Bible.
My
regular Bible reading that morning found me in the last chapter of Joshua, the
fifth chapter of Proverbs, (because it was the fifth) and the third chapter of
John. One from the old, a Proverb, and one from the new.
Everyday.
Same way. For years.
It’s
simple. It works.
Time
after time after time, the timeless words, as if guided by a precision missile,
find their way to the hidden center of my circumstance, bringing clarity and
light.
I’ve
learned to trust those words, more than circumstance, more than, much more than,
the frontpage news.
I
read as Joshua laid out the history and victories of his nation and then told
them to choose:
“…if it seems evil to you to serve
the Lord, choose for yourselves this
day whom you will serve…But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
(Joshua 24)
Little
did I know later that day, I’d hear the President of the United States say:
“This
is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us
together as citizens, as neighbors, as patriots. This is our future — our fate
— and our choice to make. I am asking you to choose greatness.”
Then,
I read in Proverbs, “Pay attention to my
wisdom…lest aliens be filled with your wealth, and your labors go to the house
of a foreigner”
Those
words echoed that evening when I heard, like a Trumpet:
·
One
in three women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north.
·
Smugglers
use migrant children as human pawns to exploit our laws and gain access to our
country.
·
Human
traffickers and sex traffickers take advantage of the wide-open areas between
our ports of entry to smuggle thousands of young girls and women into the
United States and to sell them into prostitution and modern-day slavery.
·
Tens
of thousands of innocent Americans are killed by lethal drugs that cross our
border and flood into our cities, including meth, heroin, cocaine, and
fentanyl.
·
The
savage gang MS 13 now operates in at least 20 different American states and
they almost all come through our southern border.
·
Just
yesterday, an ms-13 gang member was taken into custody for a fatal shooting on
a subway platform in New York city.
·
We
are removing these gang members by the thousands, but until we secure our
border, they are going to keep streaming right back in.
·
Year
after year, countless Americans are murdered by criminal illegal aliens.
·
ICE
officers made 266,000 arrests of criminal aliens, including those charged or
convicted of nearly 100,000 assaults. 30,000 sex crimes, and 4000 killings or
murders.
·
More
than 300 women and girls have been rescued from the horror of sex trafficking and
more than 1500 sadistic traffickers have been put behind bars.
Excuse
me for a moment…
My
wife just walked in, in a bit of a panic.
“The
tool room door is wide open—it’s been open all night.”
“I
hope someone didn’t break in. I’ll check it out.”
“I
hope some rodent, didn’t crawl in…a rat.”
As
I walk to the tool room, I remember the president’s words:
“Now
is the time for ending illegal immigration and putting the ruthless coyotes,
cartels, drug dealers, and human traffickers out of business.”
Yep,
the door’s wide open, but it looks like the grandkids simply failed to shut the
door. They know better. They were simply too busy with their own agenda to get
it done.
Didn’t
we just hear something like that?
In
the past, most of the people in this room voted for a wall — but the proper
wall never got built. I’ll get it built.
I shut and locked the door and made sure it
was secure.
This
really happened, just now, while I was writing those statistics above.
Now,
where were we?
Oh
yea, the last thing I read, was the third chapter of John.
“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God.”
I am also proud to be the first
president to include in my budget a plan… that every new parent has the chance
to bond with their newborn child.
“How can a man be born when he is
old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
There
could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her
infant child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days.
as
Moses lifted up the serpent…
Lawmakers
in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would
allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.
even so must the Son of Man be lifted
up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish…
These
are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share
their love and dreams with the world. And then, we had the case of the governor
of Virginia where he stated he would execute a baby after birth…
but
have eternal life.
Let us work together to build a
culture that cherishes innocent life.
And
let us reaffirm a fundamental truth — all children — born and unborn — are made
in the holy image of God.
For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish
but have everlasting life. 17 For
God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the
world through Him might be saved.
Coincidence?
Or, an olive branch. A call to unity, to peace, to return to our roots and our God?
You
choose.
As
for me; I choose to believe as Joshua Kaufman:
A
second holocaust survivor who is here tonight, Joshua Kaufman, was a prisoner
at Dachau. He remembers watching through a hole in the wall of a cattle car as
American soldiers rolled in with tanks. “To me,” Joshua recalls, “The American
soldiers were proof that God exists, they came down from the sky…they came down
from heaven”
“But as for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15)
This
is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us
together as citizens, as neighbors, as patriots. This is our future — our fate
— and our choice to make. I am asking you to choose greatness. No matter the
trials we face, no matter the challenges to come, we must go forward together.
We must keep America first in our hearts. We must keep freedom alive in our
souls. And we must always keep faith in America’s destiny — that one nation,
under God, must be the hope and the promise and the light and the glory among
all the nations of the world! Thank you. God bless you, God bless America.
Thank you very much.
I
call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before
you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you
and your descendants may live (Deuteronomy 30:19)
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