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| Vuyile Voyiya |
Be
acceptable in Your sight,
O
Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
(Psalm
19:14 NKJV)
“I
will rise up against them,”
declares
the Lord Almighty.”
I
will cut off from Babylon her name
and
survivors....” (Isaiah 14:23 NIV)
What
does it mean to you that God has absolute power over all who would
try to exercise or usurp power? How does that challenge you? How
does it encourage and strengthen you? (Serendipity Bible 10th
Anniversary Edition, page 979).
It
is my view that God has devised the world so that fundamental laws
ensue. Most all of them have to do with limitations of one sort or
another. That is, the seven deadly sins, for example, by inversion
map out well the laws as they pertain to human nature. [The seven
deadly sins are wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and
gluttony.] If these laws are violated, human behavior is not optimum
and will eventually lead to disaster first on a personal level and
then by contagion of a societal level. In short, ethics (abiding by
the laws of God) are central to the survival of individuals and
nations. The key failing is always and forever the rebellion of the
human will from accepting limitations set in place by God [or if not
by God, then by elemental personal and organizational laws which
apply with the absolute power of physics itself]. The human will,
contrary to all this, lusts for limitless freedom and exploitation.
A fundamental perversion that afflicts my country of America is the
stamping of “unlimited” on the pursuit of success and wealth. We
are the “land of opportunity” which means too often through
ghastly perversion the unlimited pursuit of “whatever and to what
extent we damn well please.” Thus, at the very core of my
country's great promise for disciplined competence and insight lies
the canker of ideological excess and blindness. Unless we come to
terms with these inherent limitations (even if it seems un-American
or not totally capitalistic), our promise is certainly doomed by
willful rebellion against regnant law.
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