Week 5 Psalm 33
There’s always saber-rattling going on somewhere. I haven’t checked the news yet but when I do I predict that today – Thursday, February 3, 2022 – some country will be challenging another one. I’ll maybe see a map with a bunch of little blue tanks jets infantry weapons with bracketed numbers beside them and they’re facing east and then there’s a yellow line and on the other side of the yellow line facing west I’ll see red tanks jets infantry weapons with bracketed numbers beside them. Red Country’s red tanks might say (1000) and Blue Country’s blue tanks (200). So…the mathematical forecast of Modern Warfare calculates that Red 1000 will beat Blue 200.
Today I read:
…the best-equipped army cannot save a king, nor is great strength enough to save a warrior
...don’t count on your warhorse to give you victory – for all its strength, it cannot save you.
I checked the course offerings of the Royal Military College in Kingston Ontario and didn’t find any syllabi with titles like – for instance – Religious Factors & Influences in Armed Conflict. By contrast David didn’t isolate international warfare from the unpredictables of outside-the-normal-envelope influences:
…the Lord looks down from heaven and sees the whole human race
…the Lord shatters the plans of the nations and thwarts all their schemes
…we depend on the Lord alone to save us…protecting us like a shield.
Note: quotes from Psalm 33:16, 17, 13, 10, 20 (NLT). Added note: When I checked today’s news I saw my forecast was wrong. My predicted yellow line was actually white.