Beware The Ides Of March
By Kay King-Hill
Shakespeare said it first, but surely old Julius Caesar should have
heeded the ominous warning: “Beware the ides of March.” He could have
paused his own agenda just long enough to listen to someone else’s
common sense. Before that Roman senator wielded his weapon of
demise.Enough of that, though. But indeed if “all the world’s a
stage,” let’s look at our contemporary next scene--2022.
Admittedly, after my high-school memorization of the Bard’s most
famous lines, and following BU literature -from-Avon, I actually
decided to inquire of Daniel Webster’s take of that archaic term--
ides.
It simply means “middle.” Charles H. Spurgeon penned his personal
warning of a mediocre mindset like this: “Man’s greatest moral
dilemma isn’t discerning right from wrong but rather the challenge of
seeing just how close he can come without commitment.” Kinda like
driving down the middle yellow stripe of I-35.
So let’s get specific. Translated via network news, lawlessness is
purported to be justified when emotion drives right past reason--and
God’s Word. If a woman’s “right” to choose murdering her unborn child
is implemented, I really believe our entire nation may be deserving of
judgment. Just as God poured forth His wrath on His Chosen Land when
the inhabitants abandoned babies to the fires of destruction. When
public schools present an option of a child’s becoming a girl one day
and a boy the next, who will reap the wrath of God, the Creator of
Life Who said “male and female”? We see gross economic instability and
politically-driven foreign policies which enemy nations speed-read
like a magnified eye chart. Government mandates and globalization that
not-so-gradually replace the persuasion of our founding fathers--”In
God we trust.”
In closing (literally), here’s one more frightening statistic
according to Jimmy Evans, teacher of prophecy : “Seventy percent of
evangelicals settle for the assumption that there are many roads to
Heaven.” I call that a middle-of-the-road one-way ticket to hell.
So then, beware the ides of March! Instead, let’s purpose to humble
ourselves under the mighty and merciful Hand of God. The Lord Who
says, “I change not!” The One of whom John penned in Scripture: “God
is love!” This One Who has drawn us with everlasting cords of love.”
True, we do not yet see all things put under the feet of Our Lord. But
we do see Jesus! We must keep looking unto Him only, the Author and
Finisher of our faith.
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