B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder of the Scout Movement and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association. Though he died in 1941, he must have read the Holy Bible, especially the pages which we are reading during these days, at the beginning of the Liturgical Year.
Had he lived in the days of Jesus he would certainly have been a popular follower of the Rabbi from Nazareth. Why do I say so? Because of the motto he applied for the Boy Scouts Movement. ‘Be Prepared’ is a maxim which applies to all alike; being a Boy Scout, a Girl Guide, a Cub and what not.
It surely applies to us all; to each and every believer and
non-believer in God. BUT, here’s a special message to all world leaders;
political leaders all round the world, ministers, senators presidents
or the like; be they leading countries as powerful as China, the U.S.A.,
Russia, and others, and be they as small as S.Marino, Malta or Dark Sky
Island.
This is the message. This Text (Matthew 13: 28 – 37) tells us, that only the man of God can see into the secrets of history. Jesus saw the fate of Jerusalem, although others were blind to it. A real statesman must be a man of God … (repeat) A REAL STATESMAN MUST BE A MAN OF GOD.
To guide his country a man must be himself God-guided. Only the man who knows God can enter into something of the Plan of God. (W.Barclay)
It tells us that it contains a fact we forget or DISREGARD … at our peril. The imagery in which it is clothed is the imagery of Jesus’ own time, and that to speculate on it is useless, when Jesus Himself was content not to know. The one thing of which we can be sure is, that history is going somewhere; there is a consummation to come.
It tells us one last message. That the wise man is he who never forgets that he must be ready when the summons comes. If he lives in that memory, for him the end will not be eternal terror and damnation, but eternal joy. BE PREPARED.
One last point to think about. When we are ‘face to face’ with the Divine Judge, we shall be alone; no lawyers to help us, no husband or wife, no children, no political leaders, for whom we have fought to defend, absolutely ‘no one’. I, myself, unaided, have to give account for all my misdoings. Food for Thought.
A friendly TIP to ALL world leaders … DO read and DIGEST today’s Reading (Thursday) from Revelations 18, 1-2, 21-23; 19: 1-3, 9a. Do not disregard a friendly tip, one day you have to answer to the Almighty Judge why you have ignored such an advice. You are the ‘agents’ who have rendered, changed the world (including Europe) into a Babel. To sin it’s human but to repent it’s divine.
This is the message. This Text (Matthew 13: 28 – 37) tells us, that only the man of God can see into the secrets of history. Jesus saw the fate of Jerusalem, although others were blind to it. A real statesman must be a man of God … (repeat) A REAL STATESMAN MUST BE A MAN OF GOD.
To guide his country a man must be himself God-guided. Only the man who knows God can enter into something of the Plan of God. (W.Barclay)
It tells us that it contains a fact we forget or DISREGARD … at our peril. The imagery in which it is clothed is the imagery of Jesus’ own time, and that to speculate on it is useless, when Jesus Himself was content not to know. The one thing of which we can be sure is, that history is going somewhere; there is a consummation to come.
It tells us one last message. That the wise man is he who never forgets that he must be ready when the summons comes. If he lives in that memory, for him the end will not be eternal terror and damnation, but eternal joy. BE PREPARED.
One last point to think about. When we are ‘face to face’ with the Divine Judge, we shall be alone; no lawyers to help us, no husband or wife, no children, no political leaders, for whom we have fought to defend, absolutely ‘no one’. I, myself, unaided, have to give account for all my misdoings. Food for Thought.
A friendly TIP to ALL world leaders … DO read and DIGEST today’s Reading (Thursday) from Revelations 18, 1-2, 21-23; 19: 1-3, 9a. Do not disregard a friendly tip, one day you have to answer to the Almighty Judge why you have ignored such an advice. You are the ‘agents’ who have rendered, changed the world (including Europe) into a Babel. To sin it’s human but to repent it’s divine.
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