It's quiet in the house as I write this, save for the sound of hot air coming from the heating ductwork at my feet. The television is on in front of me minus the hot air for I hit the mute button as Barack Hussein Obama began to speak in his annual State of the Union Address.
How did we come to this point? It was only twenty-six years ago that one of America's greatest presidents, upon looking over the Oval Office for the last time as president, reached into his desk drawer and grabbed a handful of peanuts and walked over as was his daily custom and threw them on the patio for the squirrels, only this time he left a hand written note....."Beware, the new guy has a dog!" We could trust this man. I think that we loved him. We would stand behind him in any situation for we knew that he loved this country and its traditions, and honored its heritage. The country was as religious as it had been in quite some time, full of this new, albeit theologically frail, breed of evangelical. How did we squander it all in less than three decades?
I'll give you the first verse that came to my mind in answering my own question. This is Judges chapter 17 verse 6 and I chose the Holman Christian Standard Bible: "In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted." Scottish Presbyterian minister Samuel Rutherford wrote Lex, Rex in the mid-seventeenth century and his meaning in this title was that the King was not supreme but rather the law, specifically God's law. Here is where we failed...God law is ignored in America and therefore we have no king. Indeed, today, everyone does whatever they want.
I purposely didn't hear a single word of that speech tonight for Barack Obama is the apotheosis of lawlessness. May God have mercy upon us and see us as Nineveh in Jonah's time where He asked of Jonah "Should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot distinguish between their right hand and their left.....," and may it not be the Nineveh of Nahum's day with the proclamation in chapter 3 verses 18 and 19....."Your shepherd's are asleep, O King of Assyria, your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them. There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you...." (ESV)
I did pay attention to the GOP response by Senator Joni Ernst and you could tell who gave direction to that speech. We need the framework to begin on a legitimate party, to have it in place if necessary, and that... if God even gives time for another election.
Note: the anecdote about Ronald Reagan came from a former Secret Service agent guarding President Reagan, Joseph Petro and the book was Standing Next To History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service.
How did we come to this point? It was only twenty-six years ago that one of America's greatest presidents, upon looking over the Oval Office for the last time as president, reached into his desk drawer and grabbed a handful of peanuts and walked over as was his daily custom and threw them on the patio for the squirrels, only this time he left a hand written note....."Beware, the new guy has a dog!" We could trust this man. I think that we loved him. We would stand behind him in any situation for we knew that he loved this country and its traditions, and honored its heritage. The country was as religious as it had been in quite some time, full of this new, albeit theologically frail, breed of evangelical. How did we squander it all in less than three decades?
I'll give you the first verse that came to my mind in answering my own question. This is Judges chapter 17 verse 6 and I chose the Holman Christian Standard Bible: "In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted." Scottish Presbyterian minister Samuel Rutherford wrote Lex, Rex in the mid-seventeenth century and his meaning in this title was that the King was not supreme but rather the law, specifically God's law. Here is where we failed...God law is ignored in America and therefore we have no king. Indeed, today, everyone does whatever they want.
I purposely didn't hear a single word of that speech tonight for Barack Obama is the apotheosis of lawlessness. May God have mercy upon us and see us as Nineveh in Jonah's time where He asked of Jonah "Should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot distinguish between their right hand and their left.....," and may it not be the Nineveh of Nahum's day with the proclamation in chapter 3 verses 18 and 19....."Your shepherd's are asleep, O King of Assyria, your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them. There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you...." (ESV)
I did pay attention to the GOP response by Senator Joni Ernst and you could tell who gave direction to that speech. We need the framework to begin on a legitimate party, to have it in place if necessary, and that... if God even gives time for another election.
Note: the anecdote about Ronald Reagan came from a former Secret Service agent guarding President Reagan, Joseph Petro and the book was Standing Next To History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service.
