Tuesday.....International.....The Skies of November Turn Gloomy

This blog is written to those who may come across it from outside of America. The BBC news and a couple of other news sites from outside the United States are what I read on a daily basis and if this is any indication of news sources from other nations, you are not even being given a glimpse of what is going on in America. Our media has failed its profession. This is one problem we face, and the single most important reason that Barack Obama was elected President last year. The agenda that he had pursued his entire adult life was kept from the American public. His power grabs and the thuggery of his party in Congress since his inauguration have been ignored. We are an entertainment driven culture and our powers to reason, analyse and discern have been steadily declining for quite some time. Where we once saturated the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and with the prospect of freedom and liberty, we now specialize in sending the world our latest Hollywood films. Many throughout the world, no doubt, celebrate this new American consciousness but that celebration may be short lived for behind the news that you see is an America that has witnessed usurpers come in and while surreptitiously at first, they now boldly discard, piecemeal, our traditions, our laws, our constitution and have placed our republic in jeopardy. The skies of November will turn gloomy for the Democratic party, to paraphrase a popular song from our history, but the gales of November may come early in a world whose economies are teetering and where terrorist minds know our present situation and may wish to challenge our rhetoric, probe the limitations that this administration may have applied to itself and test our general will to defend ourselves and our way of life. There is no beating the chest and no declarations of prowess in the intent of this blog. Our strength has always been and will continue to be directly related to our humbling ourselves before Almighty God. We are not His special nation, nor are we His gift to the world. We are a secular nation whose foundations had acknowledged a creator, whose people proclaimed Jesus Christ as their Savior and whose pulpits proclaimed our weaknesses and His strength, our shame and His glory, our unstable ways and His immutability in His goodness, justice and love. We have strayed from this faith and if there is reason for our enemies to celebrate, it is this, but let them also know that the glory that is due Him and Him alone is what is certain and not that of our future. This also is true, the gospel is offered to all, and to those reading this from outside America, who have redemption through the finished work of Jesus Christ, though we be citizens of different nations, we are brothers and sisters in Christ who is our only hope.

*The Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot