Have They Already Begun?

If we were asked, how would Americans view God's opinion of us and our nation and what would they rate the possibility of impending terrible judgments upon us? It's a difficult question for the average American to even contemplate upon for we are generally certain of one thing only, that being that America will indeed continue to plug on, either in good times or possibly bad times but far removed from utter devastation that other countries, and empires, had experienced. It's not a trait peculiar only to Americans for every empire has felt itself somewhat invincible for a long time after its influence and power had peaked. This is our particular malady at this time for we perceive today as simply our turn to live while enjoying the fruit of our productivity and liberty while oblivious to predators of that productivity and liberty. I worry about our youth. It's often said that the same concerns were present in every generation but I lived in those infamous 60s and even with the ascendancy of the drug and rock culture it was tame compared to the diversions that our youth of today have thrown at them. I had a Radio Shack Flavor Radio, a black and white television, a few balls of various shapes and sizes and a 110 pound set of weights to occupy my time. Television is far worse today, far more enticing with many many more channels and an accompanying philosophy of life, society and politics that does anything but convey the belief systems that originally encouraged productivity and liberty. Even so, television is not even the biggest culprit in our decaying society for the Internet, with all of its information, dumbs us down to such a degree that we can ingest but not digest and we can take in vast amounts of that information but cannot analyse it or even categorize it for future use. Throw Facebook into the mix and we have more than one generation involved who, as Narcissus of Greek mythology looked at his reflection in a pool until he died, we continually update and gaze at our own reflection on our Facebook page as that day of judgment nears. It is unlikely to us that judgment, should it materialize, would be anything more than economic decline, political bickering that divides and occasional, prolonged far off wars. We accepted Darwin's flawed concept of the origin of man but this was not enough for God's mercy upon us to end. We forbade our public schools to offer simple prayers to God in 1962 but that was not enough either unless one takes into consideration the half century of chaos and violence our society has endured since then. We legalized the taking of life in the womb in 1973 which is estimated now to be 50 million lives but we still exist as a nation. Our latest offense may be our last in that, in our haste to accommodate the gay agenda through same-sex marriage we would be, in effect, offering up the minds of our children in just about every area of their lives, in what God very clearly calls an abomination. Personal opinion here, it is one thing to permit others in a free society to make choices that effects only themselves but an entirely different matter to permit an agenda to validate those choices to impressionable minds to whom God gave express warnings not to lead astray. Having said this, it is not the gay agenda, or the liberal agenda or even the radical, progressive Marxist agenda that should be our primary concern for all of those only emanate from the consensus of a people. It is our own individual failures that led to such a consensus that we need to deal with. We should indeed struggle within ourselves as to whether we have any right at all to speak against America's profane dealings with God for we ourselves have added to that but that is not an excuse not to stand for what is right. The reality is that we indeed are a sinful people...dealing with our own individual sin as we struggle to lessen the temptations all around us that exacerbate that sin in ourselves and further decay our culture, all the while pleading for God's mercy but knowing that we may have presumed upon that mercy for too long. The violence and imminent collapse of our own nation and the entire world is evident yet we continue to call what is good evil and what is evil good. As I have written often in this blog, no political or military solutions will cure us. They need to be addressed but only a sincere, individual and corporate, humbling before our Creator can give us hope for renewed mercy, and we are without excuse for the evidence is all around us, if only we would look, that God's judgments have already begun.