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This as Hank Scott
for The Pure Truth Restored. Why Preach
To The Wind? Some -- like teachers finally retired --
discover their life's work suddenly at an end,
longing to do what they have always done
but no longer able, after devoting years
up their lives to the effort. Others, such as myself, often feel this way
every day of their career, doing what few if any people truly appreciate,
trying to save a lost world from its own
and inevitable self-destruction. Consider the patriarch
and prophet Moses, who was such a man.
Almost none of those he brought out of Egypt
responded to his leadership and guidance
in spiritual matters. They were merely a- long for convenience's sake
but, as soon as things looked difficult they were ready to abandon it all,
and turn right back to their doomed life of slavery
and oppressive subjugation. At least Moses had some backup in the form of
miracles
and miraculous events, like manna six days every week,
but not even this would really convince those whose hearts were
anything but converted or spiritual.
It all became so mundane and expected by his reluctant charges,
that on more than one occasion even Moses felt like giving up and throwing in
the towel on the entire situation.
Yet he argued forcefully for the ever- errant Yasraelites
in the hopes they might somehow, someday,
someway see the light, repent,
and at last discover the blessings they were leaving behind with
every step they took back to Egypt in their hearts,
attitudes and actions. This is an age not unlike that,
in terms of people so caught up in their everyday lives of quiet desperation,
enslaved to monetary and governmental systems
that prey upon their patriotic emotions
to rob and destroy them, either gradually or suddenly through needless wars and
conflicts around the world.
How many today look first for spiritual guidance,
seeking out the advice that only their Creator can provide them,
compared to the nearly unanimous majority
who are doing whatever seems right in their own eyes?
From earliest childhood to the aged elderly,
everyone seems to follow the dictates of blinded hearts,
seeking after blind leaders, and together
they stumble through their lives toward the ultimate "ditch" of
death, unable to see,
unwilling to acknowledge, and utterly
unaware of the disasters that lie in store for all
who take the broad, wide, easy to traverse highway
that leads only to ultimate destruction
in the end. Extremely rare are those precious few
who, casting about for a better way, a real solution to life's vexing issues
and troubling abrupt end,
seek to find a less obvious
almost concealed gate and boulder strewn path
that -- however difficult and painful to endure --
leads finally to all the blessings
everyone else seeks in all the wrong ways,
but can never have, without first giving up their own
deceitful, hurtful, harmful ways, thoughts
and actions. It is for the sake of anyone who would dare discover
this abandoned way that, faced with little or no appreciation for my life's
work and effort every day,
I struggle onward and make the daily effort
to teach, lead, guide
and counsel. If only there were more, in this age, who sought out inspired
spiritual advice
and were willing to accept and heed it,
this world and its peoples would be so much more blessed,
and their suffering, deaths and destruction would end.
All this is so needless, yet carnal sin- ful hearts
do not learn from such experiences, stumbling blindly forward
toward a precipice up their own choosing.
The prospect of guiding even one sinner
(spiritual law breaker or felon) away from the terminal penalty
and toward the light of merciful forgiveness and true salvation
(from the dictates of sinful human nature),
through obedience to the spiritual Law everyone today seeks to ignore, condemn,
blame and unjustly vilify, is what keeps me going.
This is why I preach to the wind, and have done so
for more than 34 years, mostly in vain.
I cannot know which way the wind will blow next,
but if there is one thing that is as certain as the changing seasons,
this will all surely come to an end one day.
The longer the storm has galed and spent
its violent force in fury upon the face of the earth,
driving all living creatures to seek shelter from the terrible tempest,
the more sudden and unexpected will be its absence,
when the sky clears, so peaceful calm
and real safety can at long last prevail.
I preach to the wind as a means of forewarning those invisible forces
responsible for it,
of their own inevitable comeuppance, when men and women
well no longer follow the dictates up seeming "necessity"
to survive, but will step forward
and full faith and reliance upon the ever provident will
of an ageless, forgiving and carrying
Creator. May Creator Yahveh
speed that day!