day no. 15,204: mute-opia

Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind;
they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent dogs;
they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.

The wrath of God is revealed in leaders who refuse to speak, guardians who have a gag order placed upon them, watchmen who do not watch, lookouts who do not look, sentries who are silent and basset hounds who cannot bark.

Some see this as a mute-opia: a land where no one raises their voice, no one shouts, no one barks, no one argues or gets in a huff and everyone lies down (and stays down) and sleeps.

But the Kingdom of God is ushered in by heralds shouting from the rooftops what God has done, is doing and has yet to do. It is characterized by warnings to turn to Jesus before secret deeds are articulated clearly from those same rooftops -- the ones under which we'd prefer to spend our days silently in slumber.

Pastors who refuse to proclaim are dumb dogs lazily losing their days drifting in and out of sleep as they drift downstream wherever the current dumps them.