16 hrs ago
Seems that way, doesn't it?
I think he listens to the good, the bad, and the ugly advisors, up to a point.
And believe he isn't a tyrant who mandates any one of us to follow any of them, or their advise. Nor have I seen him censor or cancel us for speaking dissent. I bluntly told him what I thought of his jabs on his Truth Social account. No pushback at all.
Having said that, whenever you find that Trump is wrong about a thing, pray to God it doesn't come to pass.
That if it isn't God's will to let something play out, it won't; and that if it is, it will.
While knowing that I can't choose for someone else whether to pursue IVF or not, and I only get one vote for or against paying for it, I'd have to say that before I minimally looked into it the last day or so, I was open to being "pro-IVF" if it truly is the right investment in future generations for our nation; now after reading about it more, I'm not so sure it is.
I know the heinous business in baby body parts (in the abortion industry) is ongoing, and we haven't been able to stop that; this is likely to expand that business if it hasn't already. I don't want to pay for that.
Before Trump brought it up, I hadn't given one thought to IVF.
Until now, I would have thought it was pro-life... now I'm beginning to see why it isn't.
Too much tinkering with God's creation is likely to be involved. I don't know for sure. I can imagine it could open the door to reselling unused embryos for experiments in transhumanist hybrids, synthetic-human chimeras, and not-fully human-but patentable "products." It could become an immoral, unethical, horror show. Being a part of that kind of a program diminishes everyone involved.
I'm only one taxpayer, and I have one voice. Trump's pronouncement will now surface other voices in a way I can't alone. Let the conversation begin. Let the expose of what IVF really is begin. And if there is a pro-life purpose to IVF, and it can be limited to that, let it be limited to that.
Organ transplants could stand to be looked at in the same way, if you think about it. How many donors are not really dead? Who gets to decide? How many are fentanyl overdoses? What does the organ transplant industry, while saving (or extending) some lives, do, that opens up opportunistice parties to temptations for money, power, influence that destroys other life?
[If Trump gets in office (a big IF), we shall have to see if it plays out in a Trump administration. Trump can't pass legislation; he can only sign it if it gets through the House and Senate. States' have rights as well... So, there are backstops.]
This morning I started accepting the distinct possiblity no matter what we do, we will suffer an uncomfortable and inevitable future that we cannot prepare for adequately in the coming years, even if we fight and "win" a Trump Presidency (or God gives us one), and not because President Trump is wrong or right about these kinds of things, or that his advisors are or aren't.
It's not really that we are choosing the lesser of two evils even; it's that we are BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE ... either course, Kamala or Trump, things likely will be painful, rocky, unpleasant, and strifeful to some degree. It's like that rockclimber with his arm stuck between two rocks, all alone and unable to call for help from any man or woman who could help. I'm praying we don't have to cut off the proverbial limb to free ourselves from the mess we've gotten ourselves into.
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Proverbs 16:6-8
6 By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
7 When a man's ways please the Lord,
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
We may not have the control of what we are going to have to go through. God knows. I think we can choose Trump over Kamala for the right reasons, have Trump back, and it still may turn out to be a case of going-down-fighting, but it might not.
This is a temporal world, and we know the ultimate end because God has given us revelation and still speaks revelation -- by His Holy Spirit, The Word, and Creation, but we don't know the when. God is predictibly unpredictable in the way He fulfills all His promises and prophecies.
This is a temporal world, and we know our own individual ultimate end because we've seen that no one gets out "alive" -- and we don't know when on that either, but we can choose to be in eternity with the Father-Son-and-Holy-Spirit-Godhead and the others who have chosen Him. (John 3:16, John 11:25-26)
God is longsuffering and merciful and not willing that any should perish, yet suffering and death are both necessary and inevitable in this fallen world, and He will never leave us or forsake us through it all. Until the fulfillment of our eternal salvation out of this world into the eternal one.
John 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you
I pray you find the peace of God which surpasses all of men's understanding, and find inspiration and blessing today. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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