Clarify of Opamism

Clarity of Opamism

Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.  (Isaiah 13:2)

            In the 21st century world of staggering technology Christians must be convinced to "taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man who trusts in him."  Psalm 34:8.  In the 21st century world of playing church we must clarify the opamism that perhaps God will start over with us. 

            There is nothing natural about the isms (communism, fascism, atheism) of life.  Nothing in natural law, animal life, for which human beings should aspire-accept these silly ideologies.  We live in a supernatural world.  The Christian belief is, in every way, supernatural.  Our radical unbelieving friends read about, gorge themselves watching screens (movie, TV) about J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter's dragons-witches-ghosts, all types magic, but so quick to ridicule praying, foot washing, Lord's table Christians.  Carl Sagan (Cosmos) said, "This is it.  There is nothing more.  Anything else is just wishful thinking."   The atheist, scientist friend, further said to me, "I live according to a strict code of ethics, take advantage of all science, long life or short life, I will just die, be buried, rot, and my body used for fertilizer." 

            Observing the handiwork of the Creator every day.  How is it possible for one not to believe in a supreme designer?  Observing the great artist canvases of the world, machinery of every type, miracles of technology making life so much easier, how could anyone deny a designer?  This writer was speaking before a ministers' conference, I heard several of the preachers talking about the magnificence of the computer.  In my remarks, I said, "I heard talk about the memory-megabytes of the computer.  This world traveler has observed glaciers at both the North and South Pole, 200 million square miles of ice formed by snowflakes turning into crystals.  Could the human mind believe there are not two snowflakes with the same design in all of this world, not two grains of sand alike on the vast seashores of this world, of the billions of human beings who have lived on this earth, 7 billion today and at least 7 billion dead before this day, no two humans with the same flecks in the iris of their eyes, no two with the same finger prints, same voice?  May God forgive us forsaking His book-His wisdom-His redemption!"

            It is believed that 3 million Jewish slaves left Egypt, not a feeble one among them, all healed (Psalm 105).  God chose to save them, feed them, lead and humble them (their shoes, of iron and brass, their clothing never wore out - Deuteronomy 33:25).  World history is colored with ways He touched them.  The many who fell in the wilderness because of their unbelief, the many who have lived and died in unbelief, both before the cross and after the cross, never knew the touch, the supernatural opamism, of God's grace.  A child who is never touched, soon dies.  The most rabid unbelievers-atheist surely observe that even lower animal life touch and caress their young.  On the farm, our beautiful cow with great struggle would give birth to a calf.  The calf, hoofs covered with a sheath to prevent damage to the cow's birth canal, would struggle up onto its feet.  The mother cow would immediately lick-touch the calf from one end to the other.  So it was with baby chicks, baby kittens or puppies.  Genus homo like all fauna creation needs the supernatural touch.  The affirmism of the human nervous system (the crowning glory of man) is beyond compare.  No matter how many times you autonomic nervous system prepares for any eventuality, you can not predict what will happen.  More is needed than the stability of self.  We all have a need for an all encompassing external and internal power.  No matter the preparation, 79% of warfare trainees (soldiers on the front lines) do not fire a weapon.  The are 16,025 school boards in America.  Most realize the failures of school systems.  Few school board members, few elected officials, legislators, can produce that quality-integrity which will cause them to fight and risk everything for a supernatural inner knowledge which they possess, but do not trust, and instead choose cowardice.  The writer, C.S. Lewis, said, "Some would rather bear pain than let others know about it."  If Christians were as anxious to promote Christianity in their walk as in their talk, many unbelievers would seek Christ.  If politicians really believed in the value system of a democratic republic, our nation would rise as a true super power.

            Even in America, 1799-1892, declared even by the US Supreme court as a Christian nation, one third of our young people have had no experience with religion, 40% of all high school students have had several sexual escapades.

            You have only one life, you go around only once, this is not a dress rehearsal.  Stop worrying about what other people think.  That is their problem.  Your thinking, your opamist ability, is yours.  Your wonderful mind belongs to no one else, but you.  Within the sanctity of your own-personal mental capacity, you have the right to dream and conquer.  Believe me, you may think others care about you, but they don't.  Don't be afraid to be lonely.  Learn the affirmism of self.  More importantly, the Creator of the universe is your best friend.  As he has told this old, blind, disabled man so many times, when becoming so disappointed with others, "I am all that you need."      

Old Fogies

Recently, a pastor friend of mine said to me, “you are just an old fogie.” I had just said to him that statistics prove that 91% of all “supposed” Christians do not have a Biblical perspective on life.

Often, young people will talk to me about things which they know should be exposed, which they know are wrong, and which they know will bother them the rest of their lives. A young man told me about a police chief at Wrightsville Beach...I later had the chance to meet the man. He said, “on this beach where so many illegal drugs are circulating, so many college students using illegal drugs such as marijuana, when he and his officers make a raid, he always confiscates the illegals.” The students know ahead of time what he will say, the news has got around, “if you do not want to go to jail, you will stay quiet about this. I will dispose of the drugs. Since you are young, with your whole life is ahead of you, I am going to forget about this incident.” Of course, then what happens? He and his law enforcement officers sell the drugs to someone else. Once or twice a year, this chief would make a big public-relations deal for the “secular, sick, socialist” news media saying he was burning all these drugs that he had “confiscated” at the incinerator.

To the uninitiated, everything is obscure. For the uninitiated, stupid, older voters in this beach town, these practices from the pit of hell continued because they did not know, and they did not want to know about the corruption in their government. Most young people know about the corruption in government, have little respect for law enforcement, judiciary, politicians or pastors, and feel that corruption and hypocrisy is the rule and not the exception. For the rest of our lives, we see it on every hand, locally, state-wide, federal, we will spend our lives just trying to protect ourselves from those hired to protect us.

Further, in discussing law enforcement at this beach town where I owned ten rental units. Since I am totally blind, I cannot always see what is going on, but hear much. I understood that there was a house of drug-dealing across the street from me. One of my neighbors told me that young people would ride up on their bicycle, and leave with drugs wrapped in toilet paper. I knew that police were involved so I went to see the woman commissioner responsible for the police department. I asked her not to involve me because of my physical condition, but she did anyways. One of my neighbors who had difficulty sleeping at night because of a stroke, would sit in the dark and watch the streets. She told me that she saw two police officers put an icepick into my tires. Of course, this was many years ago, but I still have a house there, and the conditions have not changed.

For a long time, farming communities across the nation could predict “corn knee-high by the fourth of July”. This year, there is very little corn growing in the nation. As I have written a thousand times over the years, God talks to us, but we do not listen. Not just in climate changes, but a total change in morality. This year, solar flares, unusual winds from many directions, over-land hurricanes (tornadoes), drought (Texas) and floods (mid-America) just arriving anywhere, anytime, usually without warning, such as this week's tornadoes at Churchill Downs, Kentucky and earlier this month in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Old fogies trusted in the grace of God, but for several generations now: witchcraft. JK Rowling's Harry Potter book has became the Bible of the new-age crowd. Printed in 40 countries, movies still being released, Harry Potter merchandise taking over the market. Adults, who at one time received guidance from God's Word are now reading Harry Potter. A recent poll tells us that a 20 year-old male has spent thousands of hours playing video games. Witchcraft is even recognized in the military, wiccan chaplains.

“I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.” Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU, could not imagine when he made this statement, how fast Americans would grab at it.

Neutral you cannot be, agnosticism and globalism is on the attack. We know that old fogies are not welcomed at the courthouse, schoolhouse, church house, or I am sorry to say, many times, even their own house, by their own families. The Christian, the patriot is becoming an endangered specie. Our fellow citizens groping and groveling in the deceitfulness of Satanic nonsense, wanting to please the world. The politician, pastor, parent, all seek to please the world.

The one great sharing experience of those who have aged: being able to remember America the beautiful, land of the free, home of the brave, people rejoicing in opportunity, even the responsibility of decent living while aging.