Charlottesville, Finland, Kissimmee..Spain....the names and headlines. the suffering.
Everyone wants to take a stance that says. this group is the source of evil, or that group. Murderous violence is evil no matter what the ideology. Because of the violence, we now know what the human heart is capable of, unchained from God. The Declaration of Independence states that all rights come from the Creator. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. " Of all people ( now so hated) to point out that slavery would lead to war, but agreed to keep the new United States whole.... George Washington predicted the Civil War. Lincoln DID campaign against slavery, yet he truly wanted to keep the US together no matter what,and did not address slavery, The South seceded, refused to budge. I truly believe God allowed the events to happen,,, If you are immoral, what has He to do with you? and so the bloody payment for our sins began, and yet at the end, the slaves were free. Something abolitionists, mostly Christians, had been praying for, for a long time. We helped free Europe, and the world, from Adolph Hitler and Mussolini, as well as ending the ambitions of Japan, and yet failed to address the rising threat, and the terrible costs in human lives, of communism, it would take another Us president, to bluff the USSR out of existence.Surely God has used our country for marvelous things, helping establish Israel, not only as a home for the Jews, but as a thriving democracy in an undemocratic place,, the Middle East. Yet we abused our world standing in so many ways, from 1945 to now. a biblical generation, where we sought money and power and established regimes and took them down, a right assigned to God, not us, Daniel 2 20 Daniel said, "Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, For wisdom and power belong to Him. 21"It is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men And knowledge to men of understanding. 22"It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.… In the middle of this empire building, came a man, a preacher, to tell us we had denied the very basic rights guaranteed at the beginning of this country to an entire class of people, Martin Luther King pricked the consciousness of a segregated society,called for biblical standards of behavior, and eventually, died for it.God bless him, I remember watching the I Have a Dream speech from the Lincoln Memorial.me, a southern white child, deeply affected by a man of God. His idea, thrown into this power mad society resulted in atrocious acts and evils from many groups welfare or as Jesse Jackson called it, wealth redistribution, the rise of lawlessness and drug use, sexual immorality and the right to abortion. A people raised on an unfair undeclared war, Vietnam, segregation, communism which looked pretty stable at the time ( but communism and socialism always fails ) was ripe to rebel. Martin Luther King may have been the last example of godliness triumphing over evil in this country, I would say we were "post christian" from the 1970's onward, Christians are regarded as weak, freaks, unhappy,..that sin is always more fun. and now we are Nazis.so the common rhetoric goes. as Europe arose from the ashes, and Russia and other powers retreated, international agreements became "the thing to do." so afraid of another war, it wasn;t enough to have people come together and talk ( purpose of UN) but to be battering ram to force other countries to their way of thinking, corrupt them , and allow financing by some very unsavory groups.To ignore real evils and make straw men that are always to blame (Israel again) We have reduced our politicians to a passion play, funded by sources too foul to mention, and yet we expect right thinking from them.they are gonna get theirs before the hammer falls, and everyone gets what they are screaming for,, absolute equality no right or wrong, but that landscape is gray, confined, and means. lowest common standard, same walls same pay for all jobs, no creativity or building anything new, just the overriding state, while those who have bought their way into the elite, will live as the most spoiled kings and queens of old. It is tempting to say,, well, we deserve it, but humans have always "deserved" it. This is who we are. The one thing that has ever turned things around, is prayer, prayer and a committed body of Christ.It may take our livelihood or our lives... but we must stand against the dark. That does not mean running out into the hate filled satanically driven protests Matthew 5 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. you cannot fight back with the weapons of hate, but with the armor of God, Ephesians 6 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. There;s a sword of truth, and feet shod with the Gospel of Peace,which will not make you popular, as love and peace from God' perspective are not about agreeing whatever you say or do is just fine, or any other acceptance of the devil;s agenda. God let his own son die on a cross to reconcile us to Him, and yet we value our comfort more than His presence. God gave us human government to contain the worst of our fallen nature, As such, it is fit for Christians to pray for our government, but we must go much further, like Nineveh, nationwide repentance is called for. a return to constitutional law. SO keep praying, my knees are getting sore let me tell you,as most of this lost generation has no idea they need anything other than,, more of what they want. be willing to share the Gospel to one and all. DO not let your personal stance on any issue allow you to accept a lie. We must depend on God now, and I do not believe a great revival is coming, So we stand in the dark, shining a light, leading those who will look, home, to a relationship with God and with a smile on our lips and songs of praise from our throats. Don;t let any of this steal your joy! Maranatha! |
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