None Assurance of Life

Reading:   Deuteronomy 28

By the end of this chapter, filled with doom, gloom, darkness, mayhem, and some scenarios of utter pain for all those that choose to ignore the word of God, even those on the path of righteousness can't help but feel the clarion call of despair.  Let me illustrate by providing the highlights of the list of what-shall-be...keep in mind that the list is only for those who choose the road well traveled (the pleasure seekers, as it were)...

If thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of The Lord thy God...

DEUTERONOMY 28:22, 28-33, 66

22 The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 

28 The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: 

29    And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. 

30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. 

31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. 

32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand. 

33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: 

And the coup de gras...

66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 

There are sixty-eight verses in this chapter.  The first fourteen are the good things for the righteous and the next fifty-four are the not-so-good, okay, downright bleak, things that are in store for the unrighteous (I only listed eight of those, 15%).   Verse sixty-six is the best of the nasty stuff - life hanging in doubt, fear of day and night, and the ever-popular "none assurance of life" bit that hits right at home, EEK!

You best check yourself before you hang-in-doubt yourself!

~Kipling