Though, after the longest spell 'off-blog[posting]' since early last December...19 entire days, it's long past time I got my a into g (as per tonight's blogpost - and all the rest well and truly 'owing')...
I've almost gotten out of the habit of writing...
...and so I should've gotten on (here) first thing this morning...
...though another long-established - and personally deeply important - habit (or several) intervened...
That all - quite necessarily, in my view - being said...
let me simply say that the aforementioned (title) expresses my personal sentiments - and that of, I would dearly hope, many/most other kiwis -
-though you'd hardly guess or suppose so by our society's gatekeepers, the mainstream media, these days-
Could I simply refer anyone interested in the above to a blog I posted upon February the 20th entitled
'So What is a Self-Respecting Nation to do? Vis-a-vis the 'Peoples' Republic of China: Come Cringingly Under the Dragon's Beguiling, Hypnotic Spell...or Stand Free in Our God-given Liberty? It's a No-Brainer, Folks'
And ditto for those concerned about the plight of the Wega people...and the long-suffering Tibetans.
We gain nothing at all by burying our collective heads in the sand, people, looking the other way and somehow pretending that the re-nascent Dragon is as gentle, peaceful and well-meaning as ye proverbial siamese cat or panda bear...
No, we do so - or rather have been doing so for some considerable time now - at our collective peril.
Or to cite the tenor of the remarks of a fellow upon the local (Newstalk ZB) Country Show late last week, the time's quickly coming when we'll have to */**choose...between our longtime ally the US of A, and this re-emerging colossus/behemoth of a grand ancient civilization, whose present designs appear anything but tame and friendly...
*Though this comment might seem to suggest that my previous blogpost was about this very topic, it was not at all on my mind at the time...
...which, in light of the sheer number and variety of worryingly problematic current global issues and developments, and the absolute immensity of problems and difficulties afflicting humankind in these increasingly fraught times, makes the 'coincidence' of such terminology all the more poignant...
**Though the option of 'neutrality' (as I mentioned to a gracious hitchhike driver just two days ago) that the self-respecting Swiss peoples have long maintained (and indeed as New Zealand Inc has itself long since traversed ever since the heady days of our 'late, great' leader Norm Kirk) is perhaps another way we could choose to go...
...and without any apology or sense of shame to boot...
...though in the far more important matter of the long-term trajectory and home of our very souls, I understand that that is an option we will never have...
Yes, as Jesus' Older Testament namesake Joshua declared to a rebellious people after they'd finally arrived in and effectively 'set up shop' in their Promised Land, and were no doubt smugly congratulating themselves on how well they'd done and what a wonderful people they were to have been so bountifully blessed by 'Jehovah Jireh [their] Provider'...
...we too - each and every last one of us, in fact - need to decide, without a whole lot of further ado, to indeed choose...this day whom we will (ultimately) serve...
...for the consequences, folks, are well and truly eternal in scope and magnitude...
Yes,
None of [us] can by any
means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for
him-
For the redemption of [our]
souls is costly,
And it shall cease forever-
That [we] should continue to live
eternally,
And not see the Pit[experience corruption]
But thank God that One Equal to Him - One Who was Very God of God Himself - Himself embraced our pitiful state and fully entered into our otherwise hopelessly, eternally lost estate...
taking on all its shame, agony and even - can you believe it - its prospect of eternal separation from (His own dear) Father-God Himself...
being prepared, if it had ultimately come down to it, to die eternally in our, the sinners', own place...
I've almost gotten out of the habit of writing...
...and so I should've gotten on (here) first thing this morning...
...though another long-established - and personally deeply important - habit (or several) intervened...
That all - quite necessarily, in my view - being said...
let me simply say that the aforementioned (title) expresses my personal sentiments - and that of, I would dearly hope, many/most other kiwis -
-though you'd hardly guess or suppose so by our society's gatekeepers, the mainstream media, these days-
Could I simply refer anyone interested in the above to a blog I posted upon February the 20th entitled
'So What is a Self-Respecting Nation to do? Vis-a-vis the 'Peoples' Republic of China: Come Cringingly Under the Dragon's Beguiling, Hypnotic Spell...or Stand Free in Our God-given Liberty? It's a No-Brainer, Folks'
And ditto for those concerned about the plight of the Wega people...and the long-suffering Tibetans.
We gain nothing at all by burying our collective heads in the sand, people, looking the other way and somehow pretending that the re-nascent Dragon is as gentle, peaceful and well-meaning as ye proverbial siamese cat or panda bear...
No, we do so - or rather have been doing so for some considerable time now - at our collective peril.
Or to cite the tenor of the remarks of a fellow upon the local (Newstalk ZB) Country Show late last week, the time's quickly coming when we'll have to */**choose...between our longtime ally the US of A, and this re-emerging colossus/behemoth of a grand ancient civilization, whose present designs appear anything but tame and friendly...
*Though this comment might seem to suggest that my previous blogpost was about this very topic, it was not at all on my mind at the time...
...which, in light of the sheer number and variety of worryingly problematic current global issues and developments, and the absolute immensity of problems and difficulties afflicting humankind in these increasingly fraught times, makes the 'coincidence' of such terminology all the more poignant...
**Though the option of 'neutrality' (as I mentioned to a gracious hitchhike driver just two days ago) that the self-respecting Swiss peoples have long maintained (and indeed as New Zealand Inc has itself long since traversed ever since the heady days of our 'late, great' leader Norm Kirk) is perhaps another way we could choose to go...
...and without any apology or sense of shame to boot...
...though in the far more important matter of the long-term trajectory and home of our very souls, I understand that that is an option we will never have...
Yes, as Jesus' Older Testament namesake Joshua declared to a rebellious people after they'd finally arrived in and effectively 'set up shop' in their Promised Land, and were no doubt smugly congratulating themselves on how well they'd done and what a wonderful people they were to have been so bountifully blessed by 'Jehovah Jireh [their] Provider'...
...we too - each and every last one of us, in fact - need to decide, without a whole lot of further ado, to indeed choose...this day whom we will (ultimately) serve...
...for the consequences, folks, are well and truly eternal in scope and magnitude...
Yes,
None of [us] can by any
means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for
him-
For the redemption of [our]
souls is costly,
And it shall cease forever-
That [we] should continue to live
eternally,
And not see the Pit[experience corruption]
But thank God that One Equal to Him - One Who was Very God of God Himself - Himself embraced our pitiful state and fully entered into our otherwise hopelessly, eternally lost estate...
taking on all its shame, agony and even - can you believe it - its prospect of eternal separation from (His own dear) Father-God Himself...
being prepared, if it had ultimately come down to it, to die eternally in our, the sinners', own place...
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