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August 15, 2005
The Grief of a Nation
My heart is so full, I cannot speak. I cannot give utterance to the words that burn in my soul and cause my heart to sob with grief. This strange burden for a people I have never met, and the love I bear for them, is all-consuming and drives my impassioned heart to cry forth in condemnation on the stagnant and foul treachery of what our modern world calls diplomacy.
Imagine being ordered to walk up to your neighbor's door and under the authority of armed force, tell them they have forty-eight hours to leave their schools, homes, and towns.
Imagine standing in the sun-baked doorway of your shattered home, dazed with shock and grief as your sobbing wife clings to you, her sobs drowning in the roar of bulldozers tearing the home of your heart down, a pitiful bargaining chip in the relentless bickering of disinterested nations.
For the first time since 1967, Israel has ordered that Jewish settlements in areas captured in the Middle East War be destroyed and their inhabitants relocated to other areas.
My heart and prayers are with the nation of Israel at this horrendous time! Oh for the power of an army to protect this small and shattered people! However, the Jews have God on their side. The Rock of Ages shall be their Rock, their home, and their protection. May God be with them, and vindicate them!
My friends, join with me and pray for the fathers and husbands whose wives and children groan in distress. Pray for Adi Levy and his wife.
The above picture of Levi and his wife speaks more eloquently than any news documentary or book. It is the face of Israel throught the years. It is the pain that knows no end, the pain that only digs deeper. Pray for the soldiers who weep as they are forced to force their own countrymen from the land of their fathers. Pray for the children! Pour your heart out to the Lord, and beg His mercy that this will cease!
I agree with Netanyahu's resignation. I see, as he does, that this is not peace or progress, but defeat and last mintute attempts at a false peace. My friends, diplomacy is the resolution of every issue without force being used; it does not involve evicting families from their homes. This is not diplomacy, but yet another police act of the world against the Jews.
To my Jewish brethren, I say, may God protect and sustain you.
Shalem alochem!
Posted by Grant at August 15, 2005 12:49 PM
Comments
Blessed be the most High God Who will keep His chosen people until they finally recognize their true Messiah Jesus.
"Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith the LORD: If heaven above can be measure, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD." (Jeremiah 30:35-37)
In other words NEVER! God loves His chosen and will sustain them. Thanks for your eloquent look into the heart of a grieving nation. A tender loving tribute to a people who have been forsaken by so many.
Maranatha!
Posted by: mary at August 16, 2005 07:44 PM