it boggles the mind

Today’s Mad Sate of Our Rebellion is, likely, politically incorrect. I blame it on the Bible
 
Here, is a picture of current U.S. Attorney General, Bill Barr.

​Maybe you like this one better?

I don’t know what you see, but I’ll tell you what I see.
 
“His eyes bug out on account of his beefiness;
  his physique boggles the mind.”[1]
 
Or, if you prefer, as the KJV has it,
 
“Their eyes stand out with fatness:
  They have more than heart could wish.”
 
I’m not joking, here. Not trying to be funny or clever—O.K., maybe I have a tongue in cheek.
 
Neither am I poking fun.
 
No, I am deadly serious.
 
I wrote recently that, these days, I cant see the ugly image of the twisted Tucker Carlson without thinking of the spoiled, privileged, and arrogant young men who surrounded Judah’s King Rehobaom and counseled the king to increase oppression in Israel rather than alleviate it. Peas in a pod, are they, Tucker and these whining, sniveling, entitled whelps.
 
“And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, ‘Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us;’ thus shalt thou say unto them, ‘My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”[2]
 
Real patriots, this bunch.
 
Well, in a similar vein, as I recently considered a news piece about the corrupt and despicable Mr. Barr, with its accompanying picture of the arrogant SOB, the verse quoted above from the 73rd Psalm popped into my head.
 
In the end, however, it isn’t so much Barr’s physique that is repulsive as it is his heart. For the Psalm isn’t about the physical girth of the ungodly. Rather, it is about the narrowness of soul that the ungodly possess with such hubris.
 
“Even in death, they experience no suffering,
  but die with stomachs full.
They do not experience the hardships of common people,
  nor are they struck as others are struck.
This is why they wear their self-conceit as a neckless;
  envelope themselves in a garment of cruelty.
Their eyes bug out on account of their beefiness;
  their physique boggles the mind.
They are disdainful and promote wanton oppression.
  Their rhetoric is ever so soaring.
They claim divine license;
  their assertions are found the world over.
This is why peoples keep turning to them;
  why, as overflowing water, they flow to them.
They say, ‘How could God know?
  How could ʿElyôn possess any awareness?’
In summary: these are the impious;
  ever secure, always increasing in wealth.”[3]
 
There may be better descriptions of the ungodly somewhere—in scripture or otherwise—but this is a pretty good one. It is as good a description as I have found of Barr and of his fellow conspirator, tRUMP, and of all those who hold appointed offices within this most defiled and defiling of administrations.
 
The Psalmist lamented the comforts and succusses of such scoundrels. Lamented, that is, until God educated him about the very real and final dispositions of such ungodly scoundrels.
 
“Contrary to what I had thought, you subject them to delusions.
  You let them fall prey to lies.
How suddenly they become accursed;
  come to a complete end through multiple catastrophes!
They are as a dream from which one awakens.
  My Lord, upon waking up, their illusionary form is deemed hateful.”[4]
 
And so, tRUMP, and Barr, and all the rest of the accursed lot often find their way into my prayers. They and the evangelical false prophets who encircle America’s Caligula and, without a shred of divine authority, place their hands upon his head to bless… all of these had better hope that God pays no heed to this lone man’s heartfelt prayers. For I pray against them with every fiber of faith and hope that I possess. Consistent with the mind and will of God, I pray,
 
“May they, indeed, O Lord, ‘come to a complete end through multiple catastrophes!’”
 
“Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
 
 
[1] Psalm 73.7 author’s translation
[2] 1 Kings 12.10-11
[3] 73.4-12, author’s translation
[4] Psalm 73.18-20; author’s translation