Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.
Oh glorious Friends of mine, it’s another rainy day! More blessings? Hopefully! But too much of anything is good for nothing. Just like rain can water the land and make it fruitful, too much can cause flooding and great disaster. And talking about flooding, I read an article in Thursday’s Toronto Star that just sickened me. In a certain city park, there’s a play structure that features the story of Noah and the Ark. It talks about the 40 days and nights of rain, with pictures of animals in male-female pairings. Now Friends, this structure has apparently been in the park between ten and fifteen years. Now one fool has complained to the city officials: ‘It bothered me, this religious story is in our public park. I’ve noticed that people have scratched out (the word) ‘God’ in them. So this has probably bothered some other people as well. We’re supposed to be the most multicultural city in the world, and it doesn’t seem terribly inclusive.’ Oh Friends, I had to shake my head in disbelief. But it doesn’t stop there. Some chairwoman from some group of friends of the park agrees that the equipment should be yanked. But she also notes that only people with young children are liable to notice it, as well as the length of time between its installation and the original complaint; some ten years or more. But the worst part of the story is that the City Councillor responsible for the area also agrees, cause it goes against the city’s general policy of inclusiveness. Well blow me down! Is taking God out of our lives, out of a supposedly Christian culture inclusive? Hn! They must have changed the meaning of the word recently. He also mouths about ‘Toronto’s motto is Diversity is our strength.’ Doesn’t he realize that anything too diverse can never be strong? That’s why the city is going to hell in a hand basket. The fools running it are trying to please everybody but God. They haven’t realized that the much- ballyhooed idea of multiculturalism is just that. It doesn’t work. It just creates little enclaves of immigrants bringing their own traditions and cultures and expecting to live exactly how they did back where they came from. No, they expect to live better, because many are running from disgusting situations, but want to keep all their old traditions. That’s why the Sikhs come here and want to walk around with their supposedly ceremonial swords and daggers, but let Babylon catch a little black boy with a pocket-knife nuh. He done get lock up for a dangerous or prohibited weapon. The turbaned people come and don’t want to wear hard hats on construction sites, or helmets on motorcycles, but still want to sue when they get injured. The Sri-Lankans just come here, bringing their ugly ethnic, civil war, but they thought it right to disrupt the city for several days recently. Now where did they get the right to breach my freedom of movement eh? Everybody fleeing from some war torn or impoverished country comes here and wants it their way, or to obliterate the Christian traditions on which the country was founded. And what’s the Christian response? Nothing! We just let them erase or eradicate our God from our country. But getting back to the foolish councillor. Although he doesn’t think that a religious artefact should be in public display, he doesn’t want to take it down until it’s worn out, which could be another ten years. Hurrah! Hallelujah! On top of that there are budget constraints and nobody is calling for them to be removed immediately. In other words, petty politics and the almighty dollar rule again, because they couldn’t take it out and not replace it, votes would be lost. He also claims that the city’s new policy only came into being after the structure was erected, but something like that would never be put in place today, because it’s inappropriate. Oh my people, please explain to me how God can be inappropriate in a supposedly godly country eh? The sad thing is, if we Christians go to the original countries of these complainers, we couldn’t even open our mouths and whisper ‘God’, much less complain about their religious artefacts. In some, if you even try to talk about Christianity you’re immediately rubbed out. Oh Canada, Oh Canada! What will become of you eh? Oh Friends, the melting pot idea that the U.S. supports isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly better suited to good relations than the multicultural nonsense we claim to embrace. At least with the melting pot, theoretically you bring something and add it to the communal pot, so at the end of the day, you can truly say, this is a reflection of all of us. But when we bring culture and tradition and keep them separate, which multiculturalism tends to do, paying little or no regard to that of the host nation, it only creates tension and eventually strife. Just look at Toronto now, with all the separate cultures in their separate neighbour-hoods. Oh Friends, diversity is an admirable ideal, but like everything else, too much of it is no good, it just causes too much friction. Everybody wants their way, but the pie can only be split in so many ways, so no one ends up satisfied, and right there the flames of dissension are lit. Oh my people, please remember that if you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything. Please, let’s stand up for our God and our country, and don’t let them demean Him any further. Don’t they realize that it’s because we’ve moved away from God, that our world is in such turmoil? And yuh know, it’s the same ones who don’t want God displayed in public, but where else yuh going to display Him eh, when hard times hit, they are the first to cry out, Oh God!’ for help. Friends, excuse the ole fella’s outburst, but the symbolism of the article and all it stands for just riled me up. I hope it riled you all up too, cause, as believers, we have to stand strong and don’t let them destroy all aspects of God in our lives. They’ve already taken Him out of the schools, the courts, the legislature and many homes. But we have to start turning this thing around NOW, later might just be too late, when there’s no trace of God left in the public domain. Like Asaph, we pilgrims got to cry out; ‘Turn us again O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.’ (Ps.80:3) Much LOVE!…stand up…stand up for Jesus…the trumpet call obey…
Oh glorious Friends of mine, it’s another rainy day! More blessings? Hopefully! But too much of anything is good for nothing. Just like rain can water the land and make it fruitful, too much can cause flooding and great disaster. And talking about flooding, I read an article in Thursday’s Toronto Star that just sickened me. In a certain city park, there’s a play structure that features the story of Noah and the Ark. It talks about the 40 days and nights of rain, with pictures of animals in male-female pairings. Now Friends, this structure has apparently been in the park between ten and fifteen years. Now one fool has complained to the city officials: ‘It bothered me, this religious story is in our public park. I’ve noticed that people have scratched out (the word) ‘God’ in them. So this has probably bothered some other people as well. We’re supposed to be the most multicultural city in the world, and it doesn’t seem terribly inclusive.’ Oh Friends, I had to shake my head in disbelief. But it doesn’t stop there. Some chairwoman from some group of friends of the park agrees that the equipment should be yanked. But she also notes that only people with young children are liable to notice it, as well as the length of time between its installation and the original complaint; some ten years or more. But the worst part of the story is that the City Councillor responsible for the area also agrees, cause it goes against the city’s general policy of inclusiveness. Well blow me down! Is taking God out of our lives, out of a supposedly Christian culture inclusive? Hn! They must have changed the meaning of the word recently. He also mouths about ‘Toronto’s motto is Diversity is our strength.’ Doesn’t he realize that anything too diverse can never be strong? That’s why the city is going to hell in a hand basket. The fools running it are trying to please everybody but God. They haven’t realized that the much- ballyhooed idea of multiculturalism is just that. It doesn’t work. It just creates little enclaves of immigrants bringing their own traditions and cultures and expecting to live exactly how they did back where they came from. No, they expect to live better, because many are running from disgusting situations, but want to keep all their old traditions. That’s why the Sikhs come here and want to walk around with their supposedly ceremonial swords and daggers, but let Babylon catch a little black boy with a pocket-knife nuh. He done get lock up for a dangerous or prohibited weapon. The turbaned people come and don’t want to wear hard hats on construction sites, or helmets on motorcycles, but still want to sue when they get injured. The Sri-Lankans just come here, bringing their ugly ethnic, civil war, but they thought it right to disrupt the city for several days recently. Now where did they get the right to breach my freedom of movement eh? Everybody fleeing from some war torn or impoverished country comes here and wants it their way, or to obliterate the Christian traditions on which the country was founded. And what’s the Christian response? Nothing! We just let them erase or eradicate our God from our country. But getting back to the foolish councillor. Although he doesn’t think that a religious artefact should be in public display, he doesn’t want to take it down until it’s worn out, which could be another ten years. Hurrah! Hallelujah! On top of that there are budget constraints and nobody is calling for them to be removed immediately. In other words, petty politics and the almighty dollar rule again, because they couldn’t take it out and not replace it, votes would be lost. He also claims that the city’s new policy only came into being after the structure was erected, but something like that would never be put in place today, because it’s inappropriate. Oh my people, please explain to me how God can be inappropriate in a supposedly godly country eh? The sad thing is, if we Christians go to the original countries of these complainers, we couldn’t even open our mouths and whisper ‘God’, much less complain about their religious artefacts. In some, if you even try to talk about Christianity you’re immediately rubbed out. Oh Canada, Oh Canada! What will become of you eh? Oh Friends, the melting pot idea that the U.S. supports isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly better suited to good relations than the multicultural nonsense we claim to embrace. At least with the melting pot, theoretically you bring something and add it to the communal pot, so at the end of the day, you can truly say, this is a reflection of all of us. But when we bring culture and tradition and keep them separate, which multiculturalism tends to do, paying little or no regard to that of the host nation, it only creates tension and eventually strife. Just look at Toronto now, with all the separate cultures in their separate neighbour-hoods. Oh Friends, diversity is an admirable ideal, but like everything else, too much of it is no good, it just causes too much friction. Everybody wants their way, but the pie can only be split in so many ways, so no one ends up satisfied, and right there the flames of dissension are lit. Oh my people, please remember that if you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything. Please, let’s stand up for our God and our country, and don’t let them demean Him any further. Don’t they realize that it’s because we’ve moved away from God, that our world is in such turmoil? And yuh know, it’s the same ones who don’t want God displayed in public, but where else yuh going to display Him eh, when hard times hit, they are the first to cry out, Oh God!’ for help. Friends, excuse the ole fella’s outburst, but the symbolism of the article and all it stands for just riled me up. I hope it riled you all up too, cause, as believers, we have to stand strong and don’t let them destroy all aspects of God in our lives. They’ve already taken Him out of the schools, the courts, the legislature and many homes. But we have to start turning this thing around NOW, later might just be too late, when there’s no trace of God left in the public domain. Like Asaph, we pilgrims got to cry out; ‘Turn us again O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.’ (Ps.80:3) Much LOVE!…stand up…stand up for Jesus…the trumpet call obey…
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