Trigger Words

Trigger Words

            America has not won a war since WWII: Korean, Vietnam, Middle East, negotiated peace. You must identify an enemy in order to defeat him...usually a matter of uniforms-front lines. Today's wars, shock and awe with one hand, handing out sandwiches with the other. In dealing with tribes, an impossible system of nation rebuilding, putting uniforms and giving military weapons to one group while allowing an apposing force to steal uniforms...all these people confused, thinking they are fighters (uniforms-weapons-ammunition), naturally killing the wrong people. Cover Newsweek, 1972, entire Vietnam War changed because of one child running naked, burning from napalm. Phan Thi Kim Phúc now, nearing 50 years of age, Christian, talks about the atrocities of war. Think of the many who did not survive. As in Pakistan and other places this very day, drones dropping bombs.

            It is this writer's opinion, totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected, medical officer veteran, the world is totally insane...trigger words of war which have engulfed the entire world, bringing on ruin politically, economically, spiritually.

            None of this is a surprise to God. Everything has already happened in His mind. Man does not see as God sees. Sitting in the parade seat, watching history, what has already happened is history to man, future to God. What is going to happen is future for man, history to God. As I have reminded so many people, including my own mother, God is at every crossroad of your life before you get there, already predestined everything that will happen. It is a great consolation to the chosen-elect-those trusting in the grace of God (that is all he requires) to know that He is in charge of everything, HE IS BOSS. He gives what we need moment by moment, day after day. "As thy days, so shall thy strength be" (Deuteronomy 33:25). When God says something twice, you better listen. Twice, same chapter, "The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge" (Psalm 46:7, 11).  Men have such hard heads, such slow learners.

            From the beginning, perfect garden-perfect world (God had established His rights with just one tree) man chose a serpent rather than God, a lie instead of the truth, death instead of life.

            The veterans administration has been so perfectly atrocious to me that I have disposed of my one, wonderful uniform I had kept for burial (I will be cremated, my ashes buried next to my parents, costing government zero). Living alone, in the night of 50 years plus, at mankind's night, I think of the horrors of war. Long after Korea-Vietnam, I was in Afghanistan when the Russians were there. Against international law, small camera in the palm of my hand, I have pictures of barefoot children on ice, parents carrying all their belongings in sacks on their backs. Today, still alive, the drones had not dropped their bombs.

            October 20th, Afghan police officer and cook poisoned six of their colleagues at a check point. October 19th, 19 killed in an Afghan wedding party.  This officer, always strict discipline, self and everyone else, shaved-shined, amazed that a fellow army medical officer psychiatrist not only killing fellow soldiers, but unshaved. 42 year old, Dr. Hassan, Ft. Hood.  What happened? At one time, everything measured with precision. 50 years ago, Cuban missile crisis, 25 miles of film taken by planes flying over Cuba, accuracy of missile links exact.

            My seminary professor's son, lectures all over the world, tells me that many American's find they can live on social security in third world countries. We know that Americans live in Costa Rica, Argentina, Thailand, attempting to escape the craziness taking over America. Often, when someone jumps ship to escape a bad ship, the sharks in the water make the ship look very good-safe. The disgraceful fortitude of other nations. The European Union (EU) with their euro dollar, politicians-elitists-bankers, scammed the public, putting forth national interest where the poor-working class pays all  taxes, the politicians who profit most, pay none. Now their economies are in shambles (pigs). American politicians-economists-academicians-good eyes, can not see the mosques being built in America at crossroads where there are no Muslims. My grandson lawyer-seminary student, returning from Asia, where parents were missionaries for many years (Dr. John and Grace Morris), Muslim nations build Mosques next to every Christian church. Like politicians, military leaders, the church will discover that the entire world is at war. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]" (Ephesians 6:12). There are many pagans-unbelievers-atheists, who do not believe it but the only hope for the Christian-one filled with the righteousness of the Holy Spirit, is to wear the whole armor of God (Eph 6:13) because "Greater is he that is in you than He that is in the world" (1 John 4:4). Adam chose for us, spirit of death. Every generation from Adam until now, we should have seen a betterment of man's nature, the nature of God that can be instilled in us (after all, God could have put his nature in rocks or monkeys). Rather, we have seen a decadence....once-God totally destroying the world circa 5,000 B.C, destroying many cities because of sin, Sodom (Genesis 19:14). And so it has been, history of man, history of Christianity.

            This blind veteran, from the poverty of a tobacco farm in Eastern North Carolina, dissolute public school, 13 in my graduating class, working way entirely through eight years of professional schooling, jumping through every government regulation my entire life, a faither (I believe that Christian faith is a verb, action based on belief, sustained by confidence). The ancestors before me (landing-founding Morristown, NJ, Goodship Kent, 1677) fought the good fight. My two grandson's, Andrew and Paul, doing better than their father and grandfather.

            This writer worked his way through eight years of University training, selling Bibles door to door, up and down dirt roads. Up a dirt road near Rose Hill, NC, the father of a family told me that they no longer went to church. "You know my family fought hard times their entire lives but now we get a government check. We simply do not see the need for church anymore." "Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, [and] the years [wherein] we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it" (Psalm 90:15-17).