About a year ago I had a 'vision' of sorts which kept nagging at me. In my mind's eye I saw a meat grinder ready to process the world. Every connection would be sundered: people, groups, nations, ideologies, even communities of faith will find themselves divided and separated and the only thing we can be sure to hold onto is our relationship with God.
Since then I have seen the separation beginning and building up steam.
Families breaking up, churches losing pastors and losing members and losing vision; faith leaders selling out their faith and the faithful alike for the praise of the world; both the left and right disintegrating; governments around the world turning on their citizens for profit and power; dictators rising and wanna-be dictators vying for election; markets hanging on at the edge of destruction, then temporarily soaring thanks to government manipulations, which one day must come to an end.
Corruption, collusion, apostasy, ignorance, idolatry, hatred, strife, envy, greed, calumny, deception, resentfulness, unforgiveness, unholiness, irreverence, mercilessness all swirling around like wheat-berries in a Vita-mix grinder.
We live in an era of unprecedented rapid change, much like the zeitgeist which inspired W.B. Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming;" the first stanza of which is particularly fitting:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best may not lack all conviction at present, but they can gain no traction as the kakistocracy attacks them every way possible so that they lose all support. Unless we stand together with the best people, there is no escaping it, we are destined to destruction and it is coming to pass, swiftly. Oh Lord, please, deliver us through this time of trial if not from it!
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