Four words adorned most of the cover of today's New York Daily News ..... GOD ISN'T FIXING THIS. The
accompanying article went on to criticize nine Republican presidential
candidates for tweeting about prayers after the horror in San Bernardino
yesterday. The tweets
from Clinton and Sanders about gun control were absurd bordering on insane while the nine Republican candidate
comments listed were meant to be innocuous but were bordering on inane.
We have become a nation that prefers to tweet its prayers to God who no longer merits a tear soaked pillow. I do see their point here but I disagree with the New York paper in that God is indeed addressing this issue of violence in America. We don't want Him therefore He is taking His protective hand off of us. He's letting us rule ourselves, which is what we want, and we can see the results all around us.
The following is a post from this past February but I want to add this and I'll use Ted Cruz as an example... there are others. He's a God fearing man...a Christian...and he knows what is going on here, he knows the danger America is in and he knows that God is the only answer. I expect that he is a man of prayer. The words of his tweet were sound and sincere but more of a political necessity than helpful. This method of instant communication is not indicative of who he is.... it is though indicative of what many social conservatives in America today demand....mere words without repentance, without introspection or any culpability, and without a cost.
How do I know this? America is crumbling, as is the world's financial system and the entire world, yet these descriptions also are seen as mere words...useful as we talk politics but impotent in motivating us to pray, for if we prayed as we should....continually throughout the day.....we would truly recognize our peril and how the novelties of this life have kept us from seeing this sooner.
"God Gave Us Barack Obama"
I chose the New American Standard Bible for this verse from Hosea 9:7... "The days of punishment have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is (considered) a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great."
Those faithful preachers who weep in their pulpits....who weep for America, for their children and their children's children, and who weep at what the American church has become, are thought of as country bumpkins, fundamentalist fools and worse. Such is the state of the American mind in this age of rampant rebellion and toxic temperance towards godlessness as our nation surrenders on every hill. Such is the hostility to anything that might interfere with plans and goals.
There is no excuse for not seeing the imminent peril our nation faces. There are reasons but not excuses. Our nation's leaders are the beginnings of our punishment! In speaking to a church congregation this past week, New York Congressman Charlie Rangel made this statement..."God gave us Barack Obama." He probably never spoke truer words!
There has never been a perfect storm as is brewing today......... Yet we party on. Billy Graham has been consistent in his warnings to America. John MacArthur has been consistent also, but we don't have ears to hear, and we don't have eyes to see. We are deaf to the Approaching Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, to use the title of a 1985 book by Rev. Graham,
Fervent prayer, steeped in humility and salted with our sweat is our only hope, our only defensive weapon.
We have become a nation that prefers to tweet its prayers to God who no longer merits a tear soaked pillow. I do see their point here but I disagree with the New York paper in that God is indeed addressing this issue of violence in America. We don't want Him therefore He is taking His protective hand off of us. He's letting us rule ourselves, which is what we want, and we can see the results all around us.
The following is a post from this past February but I want to add this and I'll use Ted Cruz as an example... there are others. He's a God fearing man...a Christian...and he knows what is going on here, he knows the danger America is in and he knows that God is the only answer. I expect that he is a man of prayer. The words of his tweet were sound and sincere but more of a political necessity than helpful. This method of instant communication is not indicative of who he is.... it is though indicative of what many social conservatives in America today demand....mere words without repentance, without introspection or any culpability, and without a cost.
How do I know this? America is crumbling, as is the world's financial system and the entire world, yet these descriptions also are seen as mere words...useful as we talk politics but impotent in motivating us to pray, for if we prayed as we should....continually throughout the day.....we would truly recognize our peril and how the novelties of this life have kept us from seeing this sooner.
"God Gave Us Barack Obama"
I chose the New American Standard Bible for this verse from Hosea 9:7... "The days of punishment have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is (considered) a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great."
Those faithful preachers who weep in their pulpits....who weep for America, for their children and their children's children, and who weep at what the American church has become, are thought of as country bumpkins, fundamentalist fools and worse. Such is the state of the American mind in this age of rampant rebellion and toxic temperance towards godlessness as our nation surrenders on every hill. Such is the hostility to anything that might interfere with plans and goals.
There is no excuse for not seeing the imminent peril our nation faces. There are reasons but not excuses. Our nation's leaders are the beginnings of our punishment! In speaking to a church congregation this past week, New York Congressman Charlie Rangel made this statement..."God gave us Barack Obama." He probably never spoke truer words!
There has never been a perfect storm as is brewing today......... Yet we party on. Billy Graham has been consistent in his warnings to America. John MacArthur has been consistent also, but we don't have ears to hear, and we don't have eyes to see. We are deaf to the Approaching Hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, to use the title of a 1985 book by Rev. Graham,
Fervent prayer, steeped in humility and salted with our sweat is our only hope, our only defensive weapon.
