Does this song capture where we want to be? What can we use for a pin prick? Or is the dream gone?
I cannot live being comfortably numb. Watching the degradation of a once great nation slide into the slime of a foul swamp cannot be part of God’s plan for a righteous people. Most of us “feel” we are on the cusp of a new beginning. It has been a long time coming and the price will be dear.
Do you ever wonder what our nation as a whole holds dear? We may not think about these questions as much as we should. If we reflect on what is important, we must consider this question not only in terms of our “wants and needs” but how we build a better future for our children. Consider this as it pertains to freedom:
If we as a people do not have the Spirit of the Lord, we will not have freedom as He defines it.
We can break the chains of being comfortably numb or we can descend into the darkness. I submit that our battle is with the people who are pushing us down into oblivion. In battles of good vs. evil, you must choose a side.
There is only one path left for a righteous people who cherish freedom.
David DeGerolamo
Freedom, has been the great enigma of our time recently, I am speaking for myself no one else. I will die on this hill, alone if need be, I will not call or expect anyone else to join me. I cannot co-exist with this enemy that now controls this country and most of the world. I am no threat to the tyrants I am but one man, I hear a lot of talk about we are defeated already, so I say to them, enjoy your slavery while you can.
A coward, if you are going to down vote say who you are coward. Be the man or whoever you wish to be.
Any reference to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man with whom most Americas are unfamiliar, should include the fact that this man, a Lutheran pastor, truly believed these words and stood up to the Nazis, paying the ultimate price of martyrdom.
https://www.amazon.com/Bonhoeffer-Pastor-Martyr-Prophet-Spy/dp/1400224640/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19YC40V0BCLJ2&keywords=bonhoeffer+pastor%2C+martyr%2C+prophet%2C+spy&qid=1677181430&sprefix=bonh%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-1
This book belongs in everyone’s library. I gave copies away at Christmas a few years back. He was hanged two weeks before the war ended.
At his hanging, the Germans claim he had a calmness, peace about him.
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18
Freedom comes with Huge price tag and IMO few understand the cost associated with such. We live in an”I’m Entitled” society. The price will be with blood and one must understand the sacrifices required.
SAC’RIFICE, verb transitive sac’rifize. [Latin sacrifico; sacer, sacred, and facio, to make.]
1. To offer to God in homage or worship, by killing and consuming, as victims on an altar; to immolate, either as an atonement for sin, or to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a lamb. 2 Samuel 6:13.
2. To destroy, surrender or suffer to be lost for the sake of obtaining something; as, to sacrifice the peace of the church to a little vain curiosity. We should never sacrifice health to pleasure, nor integrity to fame.
3. To devote with loss.
Condemn’d to sacrifice his childish years to babbling ignorance and to empty fears.
4. To destroy; to kill.
The original founders understand that and paid a heavy price. I believe there are many dedicated souls on this forum Dave, while at the same time many are purely keyboard warriors- talk is cheap. Most are comfortably numb…
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/history/signers-cost.htm
Unfortunately, this has been one of my favorite songs for decades and now in my mid seventies I have become comfortably numb!I
Although I don’t like most any classic rock, the singer in the video posted has a very nice voice, but it’s that hard rock guitar that takes over the song and is discordant. However it’s okay when Dar Williams sings it.
“Comfortably Numb”
https://youtu.be/kOn7KjOVEIo
God’s righteous people live all over the planet… many in horrible places and many under persecution even to death. What exactly do God’s elect in America deserve? God’s righteous people in this country contributed to it’s demise and we should pray that we are worthy to escape His wrath on Mystery Babylon America and we sure do not deserve a suspended sentence or a saved America unless this reprobate country fell to it’s knees in genuine repentance and even then it would only be by grace and not deserved. America needs a prophet like Jeremiah…