The Pit

Psalm 9 “... The nations have fallen in the pit which they made, their feet caught in the snare they laid.

The Lord has revealed himself and given judgment. The wicked are snared in the work of their own hands...”

I see in my head a man representing the world's nations digging a pit. The first shovel load he throws over his shoulder represents the Protestant schism. The next load is the removal of authority in worship. Then, sexual and violent entertainment, contraception, pornography, abortion, divorce, welfare, parental authority removed, gay rights, gay marriage, and transgenderism.

Psalm 6 “... Lord, do not reprove me in your anger: punish me not in your rage...”

This is what angers God. This is what causes His rage to flare. The pit we dig for ourselves and others through our selfishness. Any good parent who sees their child causing harm to himself or others will react in this way in varying degrees and expressions of that anger. Punishment is necessary to get the child’s attention and get them back on the right path. Stiffnecked children who have dug deep pits need stronger correction than those who have not. We are in a time of severe stiffneckedness.

Psalm 9 “... let the nations know they are but men...”

The pandemic seems to be winding down, and what did this opportunity for repentance bring us? Stiffer necks. The world, including many of our Catholic leaders, turned to the government rather than to Jesus. They see the reduction in cases as a win for science and for society's action. They offer no thanksgiving to the Lord in His relenting. Instead, they praise His tools, digging the pit even deeper. What will happen next?

I see these events as global attention-getting punishments. Though there may be natural or man-made reasons for Covid, this does not diminish the fact that God works through His creation. He wants us back—especially those of us who are Catholic. We have been given an enormous gift, and we squander it. We dig our pits deeper and deeper as we further embrace the spirit of the age, and others fall in with us. If we do not turn back soon and start refilling our pits, they will become our eternal graves, and those we have willingly or unwillingly drawn in with us will suffer the same fate.

God help us all.

I imagine the Lord saying:

I love you so much.

I love you so much that I sent my Son to establish a Church for you and then die for you.

But you lost sight of Me in My Church somewhere along the way and started focusing on the men and women in charge.

Because of this, you abandoned Me.

You abandoned My Church.

And things have gone downhill ever since.

Because you distrust My Church, you turn to yourselves for leadership.

You are not able to lead yourselves.

And so you dig pits through your misguided decision-making instead of climbing ladders.

Your personal pits become so deep and wide that others fall in with you.

This feels good.

This feels like a community.

But it is not.

There is no true community outside of My Church.

The one I established.

The one I maintain despite all the corruption in the hearts of those who lead her.

I weep over the pits they have dug.

And those they drag down with them.

And my righteous anger flares.

My love is intense, and so is my anger.

So many souls separated from Me for eternity because of the pits dug by others.

I weep.

I cry out to them, but they can no longer hear Me.

They are deaf to the words of My Church which no longer speaks with a clear voice even if they were able to hear.

I must take every action possible to unclog their ears and descale their eyes.

These actions are rough, but rough love is all that a hardened soul can hear and see sometimes.

My anger is love-based. My anger is perfect, just as My love is.

I will not relent until My Church speaks clearly again. Until her leaders speak with My voice again.

Psalm 29 “...the Lord sat enthroned over the flood...”

I am silent because I have been silenced.

I speak to those who wish to hear, but they are few and far between.

They ask why I do nothing about the mess.

The flood of sin.

Why do I not rescue them from the pit?

The pit is self-dug, and some effort must be made to refill it by the pit diggers.

This is justice.

Not out of cruelty but of knowing what is best for My sheep.

If I do it for them, they return to the pit again.

But if they fill the pit themselves, with My help, they are less likely to fall back, and the pit is removed so others don't fall in.

My old videos on YouTube could have been a pit for others. They contain anger, foul language, cruelty, and revenge—not of God. I refill the pit I’ve dug by removing these videos and replacing them with those that help others avoid other pits on the path to eternity and help them see the truth and beauty found only in Christ’s Holy Catholic Church.

Freedom is the gift that allows pit digging and pit filling. Both require action on our part.

Jer 11:19-20 “...for to You I have entrusted my cause.”

We entrust ourselves to Him, Who will give us what we need to dig ourselves out and to fill, but we still must labor.

Human-written, AI spell-checked 3/22/21 AD

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