“If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their
evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what
instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build
and to plant it; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice,
then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.” (Jer
18:8-10 AV)
Under our current government, our nation is experiencing a revival of
sorts. If we were to look strictly at
economic growth and religious liberty, it would appear that God is once again
smiling on our nation. However, we need
to remember we have a long way to go. What
is terrifying is to think of what might happen to this great nation of ours if
the financial rug is pulled right out from under us. True: the stock market has made historic
gains. True: the unemployment situation is at an all time
low. True: we now have more constitutional judges on federal
benches and never before. True: Christians
feel they are beginning to have some protection at a time when they feel an ever-increasing
attack from those who hate God. All
these events and more point to good news on the immediate horizon. However, at the same time our great nation has
made it legal to kill the unborn and the newly born at any and all stages of gestation
and life. We have legalized same-sex marriage. We have opened the most private areas of our
public lives to the intrusion of the sodomite.
We are on the verge of legalizing more and more substance abuse. On the one hand, there are great strides back
to what made the United States different from all other nations and brought
upon her God’s blessings. On the other,
we have not learned the lessons of history and are careening towards the edge
of a cliff. The promise above was for
Israel and can be for the United States as well.
At our core, we are still a Judao-Christian nation. The MSM would have us believe it is the
minority. But we are not. For all his faults, Jerry Falwell was
right. We are the silent majority. At heart, we are still a nation that believes
that God is real and worthy of worship.
Sure, the majority are still carnal.
But they, or we, have a foundation that other nations do not. We are not secular. No matter what the MSM wants us to believe,
we are spiritual. We have some values whose
foundations are found in the word of God.
That is why poll after poll still reflects a majority belief that abortion,
in some form, is still morally wrong. That
is why a recent poll has found that young people ages 18-34 have decreased
their support for the LGBTQ lifestyle by 38%.
These things may have peaked.
Perhaps we are seeing a turn back towards those principles upon which
the great nation was founded.
But we cannot quit. Now is the
time when the church needs to rise up!
Not for political gain. Not for a
single issue that happens to stir our passions.
Rather, we need to rise up and loudly proclaim the liberty that is in
Christ! All these issues will be solved
if the hearts and minds our God founded nation turn back towards God. Gone will be the sexual revolution that had
produced an increase in numbers of murdering the unborn. Gone will be the gender confusion as more and
more souls find their acceptance in Christ rather than touting some gender
identification that gains them affirmation and attention. The gospel has always, and will always, be
the answer for the trouble that ails mankind.
We need to turn back! Turn back
so that God can bless us again.
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