One headline read "55 Million Abortions Since Roe." This nation that we love has legally sanctioned the taking of 55 million lives. We have a tendency of putting this in the back of our minds, as if we are telling ourselves that 'other people' did this, but when we talk about America in a descriptive sense, as the leader of the free world or as the greatest nation on this planet, then the 55 million should be included in the criteria in making these assessments.
I referenced Erwin Lutzer in a post only a few days ago from his book When A Nation Forgets God that Nazi Germany, through its laws, had rendered Jewish people as non-persons therefore legitimizing the gas chambers. Have we not done the same thing with babies in the womb.
The second headline from Drudge was 56 Million Watch Game in which the accompanying article reported that 55.9 million people had watched the NFC Championship game, and this on what America once reverenced as The Lord's Day! What if instead there were 55 million Americans yesterday weeping over what our nation has become, pleading with God for personal and corporate forgiveness, calling out to Him for mercies undeserved? What if 55 million Americans pledged not to vote for any candidate who did not recognize God's sovereignty in not only our lives and our nation but even the world? What if 55 million Christians went up to their pastor after yesterday's worship service and pleaded that the cross of Christ be preached for therein is 'the power of God and the wisdom of God" as Paul proclaimed in his 1st letter to the Corinthians.
It was also reported today that Apple's final quarter of 2013 should show as many as 55 million unit sales of its iPhone. Erwin Lutzer used the phrase "cultural streams' to describe the current and content of American life but David wrote of a different 'stream' in the 23rd Psalm:
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anointest my head with oil;
my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
