Was It Ever Like Today?

 

How Could It Come To This?

   Maybe this is why He didn't want the people numbered.  I have considered that for many years. Maybe He knew what it would lead to. Maybe it has led to the idea that there are too many of us? It could have given sociopathic officials ideas about controlling populations. Maybe it has led to the devaluing of human lives? God knows that so many things devalue life.

   How many extinctions have we survived as a species? Were any as thoroughly malevolent? It's truly hard to say. God willing, this will not be an extinction.

   I suspect, though, that the level of instant communication has changed the equation somehow. We are all known in ways people were never known and "counted" in ways we never were before.

   He does say that the hairs of our heads are numbered, but He is doing that numbering! 

   Anyhow, I am just one who asks Him to have sovereign mercy on mankind, b'Shem Yeshuah, in Jesus' name, for His name's sake. Who else can we apply to? No one else.

"There is no one else!", which is part of some Jewish liturgy.