I hear it all the time in conversation and on conservative talk
radio.....'America is the greatest country in the world." I would not
dispute that, rather I would advise to look closer at the world to see
that this is not all that much to boast about. I would also point out
that America circa 2016 is but a faded image of what the Founders
designed it to be, and no where near the 'city on a hill' that the
Massachusetts Bay colonists looked to begin. I would also thankfully
admit that a remnant of our constitutional republic still exists in much
of our military, and a remnant of that 'city on hill' in many churches
and families.
Let's look at the other side. We have sacrificed our children, and continue to sacrifice them on the altars of false gods. At one time and for much of our history, belief in and reverence for God was a cornerstone of our education. Today God has been issued a restraining order to stay away from the students! Education of our children and of young adults has been hijacked. From elementary school to the wasteland of higher education we mold rather than teach and too often curse rather than bless.
We have sat back and let wolves come in and devour our children. As I write, Drudge has a story of two people being shot over a pair of the just released Nike Air Jordan basketball shoes. Whether it is violence or Miley Cyrus or even the occult, we permitted our children to be taken hostage. We look for explanations in psychology for the many and varied irrational behaviors...we look everywhere but where the answer is....we kept them away from God. We abort life whenever it is inconvenient. The greatest nation on this earth aborts its unwanted children.....by the tens of millions!
So...I wrote in the last post that America has become a "stench in God's nostrils." Maybe your first thought was that this comment was extreme and unfair? I think it is an objective assessment.
Logic and reason are great gifts that God gave to man. It's a beautiful thing shared from the simple to the genius. Our Founding Fathers were greatly gifted in them. Our universities once thrived on them. Mothers and fathers raised generations of America's children in the home with these as pillars of learning, but where once logic and reason adorned the American mind, the politically correct now deforms it.
Continue to think that we are so great if you want to, but stay away from reading the Old Testament prophets for it can be as if looking into a mirror. Israel was at one time an aroma and at another a stench, and so it has been with us. That aroma can only come back through our pulpits... which we now erroneously think can do no wrong, and where we defend ministers of the Word rather than the ministry of the Word.
Let's look at the other side. We have sacrificed our children, and continue to sacrifice them on the altars of false gods. At one time and for much of our history, belief in and reverence for God was a cornerstone of our education. Today God has been issued a restraining order to stay away from the students! Education of our children and of young adults has been hijacked. From elementary school to the wasteland of higher education we mold rather than teach and too often curse rather than bless.
We have sat back and let wolves come in and devour our children. As I write, Drudge has a story of two people being shot over a pair of the just released Nike Air Jordan basketball shoes. Whether it is violence or Miley Cyrus or even the occult, we permitted our children to be taken hostage. We look for explanations in psychology for the many and varied irrational behaviors...we look everywhere but where the answer is....we kept them away from God. We abort life whenever it is inconvenient. The greatest nation on this earth aborts its unwanted children.....by the tens of millions!
So...I wrote in the last post that America has become a "stench in God's nostrils." Maybe your first thought was that this comment was extreme and unfair? I think it is an objective assessment.
Logic and reason are great gifts that God gave to man. It's a beautiful thing shared from the simple to the genius. Our Founding Fathers were greatly gifted in them. Our universities once thrived on them. Mothers and fathers raised generations of America's children in the home with these as pillars of learning, but where once logic and reason adorned the American mind, the politically correct now deforms it.
Continue to think that we are so great if you want to, but stay away from reading the Old Testament prophets for it can be as if looking into a mirror. Israel was at one time an aroma and at another a stench, and so it has been with us. That aroma can only come back through our pulpits... which we now erroneously think can do no wrong, and where we defend ministers of the Word rather than the ministry of the Word.
