My wife and I were working on our gutter system that dumps the runoff water from our house roof into the creek and I just happened to step on a ground bee nest. Well, you know I didn’t realize that I had done anything wrong until they attacked my ankle. Needless to say, in a flash I started slapping my ankles, too late, two got me and two more were waiting in backup. They were locked and loaded, but I was quicker than them, and my next slap got them. Of course, I knew that I was outnumbered, so I retreated, and everything calmed down. Now these ground bees, commonly known as yellow-jackets, believed deeply that they owned the rights to my back yard and would defend it with all their might. Just who was right here, me or the bees?
Just what are rights and who made them and who gets to decide? Well, the God of nature and natures’ God are one and the same. God, our creator, made heaven and the earth and holds the only right to say what is right or wrong. He alone set the boundaries that holds everything where it belongs. Now natural man, from birth, will learn this if he lives long enough. There are absolutes here where we live, such as gravity. We can try to believe that we can defy it if we like, so, go and step off the back porch where there are no steps and tell me how that worked out. The design and protocols that God made are perfect if obeyed, if not, we can do great damage to ourselves and others.
Now, a friend made the statement once that a deluded person is one that knows he is wrong and doubles his efforts. If we know we are wrong long enough, we begin to think we are right. Well, everyone has a stop sign inside called a conscience. If violated enough, it becomes seared, or rather, deluded.
I have noted two men in high places of government that made statements from a mind that is deluded in the last little while. One was a nations leader. His statement in front of a very large place filled with people was, “Greater love has no man than one who lays down his life for his friends”. He believes he is right to kill Jews and Christians in Ukraine. The other person was our President in the US. He was speaking on television in front of the American people and made this statement. “To children who are transgender, I’ve got your back”. They both were wrong and believed they were right. Both men violated Gods’ absolutes and did great damage to other people, their rights, and their very lives and are still doing it. In the case of the ground bees, they can’t think and decide where to make their nest, so I don’t blame them. They’re just living their lives as God designed it. I just need to be more alert. In the case of men, God laid out His perfect design and we just need to learn it and walk safely in it.
The worst-case scenario is to have men in high places ruling out of a mind that thinks he’s right when he is wrong. So, we put men in office in America. It’s our God given right, not man given. If we observe a candidate and his actions don’t line up with his words, we can conclude that he is deluded. Our constitution was written to keep deluded men in high places from changing or taking our rights away from us. Deluded men can become like the bees, they get very angry when we get near their true nest. They swarm and try to sting us into believing their way. Men are serious in their delusion and have become a danger to us, our society, and the world. So, in the case of the bees, they just follow God’s perfect design and get angry if stepped on. But in the case of men, their angry, deluded strategies will fail, and will in the future. God made this statement, “My ways are not your ways, and your ways are not my ways”. If we all walk in His ways, and His perfectly designed precepts, delusion will flee and truth will remain.
David McClary
