WORMWOOD MAGIC

Well, wormwood for those correctly informed is the reference in the Book of Revelations to the star or heavenly body that strikes the earth and poisons a third of the rivers and oceans. Oh yeah, that will be a Kodak moment to be sure.

The thing is, this happens in the midst of all other kind of tragedies going on during the tribulations. As if people won't have enough insanity to deal with as it is. In this case, this will be yet another unbelievable part of their hell.

Not that people will in any way repent because of it, just that I think it shows when one is God's enemy he knows the best way to ruin your. I perspective you see the situation is such that at time with all the other things going on, at least you had water to drink. So you could still tolerate the other mess.

Then god takes time to be sure even that little joy is taken away. It is that one extra nudge to either force the will to turn to god or make the person end up totally accountable for their rebellion.

Real life can have plenty of wormwood magic at times. Those emergencies that come up with you least expect them. And normally when you are already in the middle of some crisis.

It is like you come home from a really bad day at work and have had a flat tire, along with several other problems to make you upset, then you go to turn on the television and it ends up giving out. All you wanted was one small break from the disasters and instead you get more grief.

Not the kind of joy you can celebrate. More then kind you hate and want to scream about. Only it never does any good.

This is not the type of thing you feel good about. And so often we get caught up in the crisis and frustration we can refuse to see that it might be a message from the Lord. His little hint that maybe we have be more than a little sidetracked from his will.

Do we listen? Probably not. Well we actually take the hint? Hopefully, but no guarantees.

In any event the joy comes from when we can see the wormwood event for what it really is. That is when it counts the most.

And you never know when that will come into our lives and we need to face what is the think that will burden us the most. Namely our spirit being out of touch with God's plans.

Hopefully he doesn't have to bury us with too many occasions of him doing that. Each new star is often a lot worse than the last one. And that only makes the situation far worse the more time you struggle against the message.