Tomorrow, Lord willing, I hope to be on another college campus. That would be four campuses in the last month. Some people like visiting aquariums or botanical gardens, and house tours are very popular today. Me....I like college campuses. I pick up the student newspaper, visit the library, analyze the bookstore and generally try my best to look like a returning alumni. So this particular post is meant for any students on that campus tomorrow who may pick up that card that I leave with this blog's 'url' written on it.... and with a pen or a mechanical pencil that I attach to the card as a gift. I'd like to speak to that student, if you would permit me to do so. I spent a few years in college in my early twenties and again, if you could believe it, in my early fifties. The second time was in taking the curriculum in a Higher Education program.
First I'd like to answer a question that you might be asking...Why am I doing this? Well a good bit of it is selfishness. Our country is about to collapse. Call me old-fashioned but I grew accustomed to the liberties and freedoms.....and security of the United States of America. Even more important to me, our son and his wife will have to live in this coming totalitarian state. And of the ultimate importance, we not only no longer present to the world a nation that proclaims belief in Jesus Christ...we present the opposite...and are reaping the wild wind of that rejection of He who is the reason for our existence, the source of our sustenance up until now and the only hope for our future.
Second, I'd like to give you some things to think about. Well over a half of a century ago Madison Avenue found out that young people indeed have disposable income and they have been after you ever since. They figured out how to convince you that you wanted what they produced. Then the Progressive wanted in on the action and they figured out how to convince you that what was false was true, what was bad was good and what was anti-American was patriotic! So you have been and are being used and abused.
Lastly, your generation as a whole is being called upon to defend America, to sacrifice if necessary and I don't know of anybody who believes that you are going to show up. I can't blame them for the assault on your intellectual integrity, primarily through our educational system, (present campus excluded!) has been relentless, and with no journalistic news media to speak of you are on your own to find answers even if you somehow saw a problem and wanted to investigate.
I keep bringing this blog back and each time I do America has unravelled more. We are seeing epochal historic events almost every day and may indeed be witnessing, first hand, the fall of the United States of America. Have you not noticed the unravelling? This is no joke and I'm not trying to be cute. Have you not noticed the rapidly expanding unravelling of our country, our government and our society over the last few years...months....even days? Our spiraling downward cannot go on much longer without impact. How we will handle that impact is the more pertinent question for today. The following blog is from December of 2011:
America Unravelling
Charles Spurgeon, the great 19th century London preacher of Christ and His Gospel, wrote these words over a century ago, The yoke of affliction, disappointment, and excessive labor is by no means to be sought; but when the Lord lays it upon us in our youth it frequently develops a character which glorifies God and blesses the church. Come, my soul, bow thy neck; take up thy cross. It was good for thee when young, it will not harm thee now.
America is heading at breakneck speed in acquiring such a yoke. We are but a shell of what we were. Where the aroma of our freedom and liberty once wafted throughout the world it is now the stench of our culture that permeates much of the globe. There should be no surprise here for when a civilization becomes so prosperous that its economy is totally dependent on what its malls can sell, its influence for good becomes depleted in proportion to the disgust that is generated. We have become a seller to the world of that which makes it vomit. Given time, all these nations would have generated their own pollution, we just accelerated the situation. It's the nature of man without God. They don't hate us because we are good, they hate us, many of them, because we once gave the appearance of it and have since, in their eyes, let them down.
Where did it begin? Hugh Hefner is as good a guess as any but what difference does it make? Our television screens rage against God! Our streets are violent and we as a people have become desensitized to it. Our pulpits preach peace when there is no peace; thinking they are building faith in God, they are concealing His righteous anger. Gone almost, is the statesman, replaced by the pure politician. Government runs our lives, obsessed and drunken with power. I see no way that God will have mercy upon us as we exist today without a radical reformation. It would be ludicrous as evidenced from many examples in Scripture, that God would give us, as a nation, more time to sell our wares while profaning His name, refusing to let our children come to Him (those that we do not abort,) destroying His creation of the family and demanding that we are masters of our own fate.
It doesn't matter what I, or anyone so inclined as I, might say. For they are just words. God has blinded us to a world hastening to destruction. We read the news as much as to say "Things are dangerous....over there!" We have become insulated by our entertainments. Our motto has become Red Solo Cup...Let's Have A Party. We cannot see a day past the Super Bowl and when that is over everything will be put on hold until the end of March Madness, and so on. We are to be pitied, but pitied only by those who do not know the majesty of God and His omnipotent power, for His mercy is as abundant as His judgments are strict, but only in response to repentance! There may very well be a yoke of affliction coming upon us for we have made it abundantly clear that only such a yoke can awaken us and even then, will our response be one of rending our garments and seeking God's mercy, to grow once again as a nation and church, or will we then blame God and those who did warn us?
Do we really want to hear peace and safety when we are at the edge of the abyss? The same Scripture that recorded God's judgments upon nations recorded his mercies. It would behoove all of us in America to look into that Word to be informed of our creator, our benefactor, our sustainer up until now, our shepherd and the ruler of all the nations.
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I know that if you are a serious student that you have little time for extracurricular reading but I also know that the time can be found if one truly searches for it. I have three very short books that will edify you if you choose to find that time. On our government and politics it would be Liberty And Tyranny by Mark Levin, on Christianity it would be Made In America by Michael Horton, and if you desire to follow up on the problems in Christianity it would be The Forgotten Spurgeon by Iain Murray....all three very readable
Do we really want to hear peace and safety when we are at the edge of the abyss? The same Scripture that recorded God's judgments upon nations recorded his mercies. It would behoove all of us in America to look into that Word to be informed of our creator, our benefactor, our sustainer up until now, our shepherd and the ruler of all the nations.
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I know that if you are a serious student that you have little time for extracurricular reading but I also know that the time can be found if one truly searches for it. I have three very short books that will edify you if you choose to find that time. On our government and politics it would be Liberty And Tyranny by Mark Levin, on Christianity it would be Made In America by Michael Horton, and if you desire to follow up on the problems in Christianity it would be The Forgotten Spurgeon by Iain Murray....all three very readable
