Who would have thought twenty years ago that our country would be in such disarray as it is today. The American dream has all but faded from view. The little white house with the picket fence on the corner of Main and Vine has been turned into a big high-rise where no one knows the other, and could care less. It used to be that communities were close knit and cared about their neighbor, but now, it is "all about me," and if you have something I want, "I will take it from you anyway I can."
It was a time when you new who was in control in "city hall," and they were there because their "morals," were as such becoming a leader. You sat down at a table with all the family to eat and discuss the happenings of the day at supper. Now you set in front of the TV, eating something quick to fix on a tray because you are in a hurry, and the kids are eating snacks, laying in their bedroom watching whatever they want for the most part on TV and for the most part being raised by God-hating people who want to destroy America and our past way of life, that most kids don't even have a "clue" about.
We used to say a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance to our Flag every day before class started, and our days went good. Now we wonder who is going to try and break into our schools and shoot our children. Or standing on a sidewalk watching the runners or a parade going by, and wondering if we are going to be another "Boston," or "New Orleans."
You can't trust anything that the government puts out anymore. Obama said he wanted to change the face of America, and he has and is doing it, right in front of our eyes, without what seems to be no restraint of any sort. It's as if he has free reign.
Has God lifted HIS Hand from off America to let us go whatever way that evil takes us.
When you read the account of the kingdom being taken from King Saul, God removed His spirit from Saul and anointed David to be the new KIng, but Saul, even though he knew what God had done, still played as much havoc as he could before he died. And David had many opportunities to kill Saul, but said "I will do no harm to God's anointed," even though God had pulled back.
Obama is dis-manteling America as fast as he can, and it seems like God is letting him do it. When a nation turns it's back on God, and forsakes His ways in the life of a nation, judgement comes to that nation. This has not just happened in the last four years. We cannot blame Obama, or Bush, or Clinton. They are the result of the problem.
If you really want to get right down to it, a lot of blame could be so called "Christians" who had no moral backbone going into the voting booth in the early part of the sixties. I know what I'm talking about...I was there. We allowed people into office who were not "Spiritually" fit to be there.
We went from small schools in different sections of town, to a larger school where parents had very little say in the teachers who were teaching our kids. Than we went to larger regional schools where we lost all control. And in the church, we did the same thing. We went from small community churches, where we knew everyone, and we prayed and worked together, to larger churches to where we had resources to "reach" more people, and than to "mega" churches, where you can "get lost" and no one knows about your sin, because they are to involved in their sins that is keeping them from following God.
Now, I don't want you to think for a moment that I am deliberately trying to be "negative," and I don't have any problem with bigger churches. But "bigger" doesn't necessarily mean "better." Look what we have now in our country.
The problem started back in the sixties and seventies, when we removed prayer from schools, when we started murdering the un-born children because it was, and still is, convenient and because they were un-wanted. God has been merciful and patient with America, but I believe He has DRAWN HIS SPIRT BACK to allow us to fall to our own doom. We really haven't had a "national" revival since Pearl Harbor. Churches don't have revivals any more. The church today has become "event" driven, instead of "theology" driven. Wednesday or "mid week prayer services" are a thing of the past. "Cottage" prayer meetings that were done weeks before revivals, are never heard of anymore.
- Can a revival save us?
- Have we gone too far already?
- Will our country turn back to the Biblical roots we had?
I wish I had an answer to these and a lot of other questions. Is there a prophet that can go to God and petition Him to stay judgement just a little while longer so we can get our loved ones into the fold? But then, why do we want more time when we have been delinquent in the use of our time we have already had to use?
But, in the midst of the darkness, there is hope. God is still in control, His word is still true and sure, and will endure every fiery dart that comes against it. And the Church of Jesus Christ is alive and well, and very soon will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. It's not my way of trying to say that we will escape the tribulation that those who are left behind will endure, and I hate the thought of anyone of my loved ones will be left behind, but for those who trust in God, and are living for Him this is "looking for the blessed hope and the soon glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ"
ARE YOU READY TO GO? ARE YOUR LOVED ONES SAFE AND SECURE?
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
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