It would be so easy to purposely ignore what has happened. It wouldn't take much effort because it's almost as if it would be natural, as if the effort would be in the observing what is before our very eyes and not in the ignoring of it. America has collapsed!
Oh, I know that the rallying cry is 'make America great again,' but as I reflect on that, what comes to mind is an aged actress, once beautiful. At the height of her career she won Oscars and was considered the Queen of Cinema. She chose her roles, and her directors, and co-stars, and film studios and producers were at her beck and call....but the wrinkles came and the makeup had to be applied heavier. The camera itself had to help her out. Time kept moving on and other actresses, just as beautiful as she had been, were getting the best roles, and the awards, and the adulation.
She would show them. She would show them all! She was still the greatest actress in the entire world. She called in favors and one film studio titan had pity on her and cast her in a role that she was too old for, but no longer would she mesmerize with her beauty...no longer would the allure be sensual.
We served a purpose. God had moved mountains, continental plates to be precise, to set this land apart from others. He brought to it a people of tremendous fortitude of which He supplied the strength...a people who would worship Him in freedom in a new land. Our purpose was in exalting God and not ourselves. It would be His land.....and for a short time it was.... but many decades would follow, even centuries, and we would see the pagan idolatry all around us and depart from Him who had blessed us so.
In a way we are today that aging actress. The red carpet that we walk on is the stain of Communism under our feet. Only we too will show them all. We'll show the entire world that are still the greatest. Only we will do it without God this time for He will no longer be our producer and our director. We will direct ourselves and maybe, if we remember, permit Him to come to the premier! But what we will find out real soon is that our greatness was in God Almighty....alone! He favored us with great minds and entrepeneurism and fortitude and courage and invention and a wonderful work ethic....it was He that secured our borders and kept our enemies at bay. It was He that our forefathers bowed down to in prayer and who they put their trust in. It was He who picked us up every time we stumbled.....and it was also He that has been warning us for upwards of seventy years that our rebellion would have severe consequences
We looked into a big screen and saw an aging God, shriveled up and we perceived the image as ugly. And ugly it was...even grotesque....but it was no silver screen....it was a mirror! May God have mercy upon us as we seek to defeat our enemies in our own might. May He forgive us for not falling down before Him in humility at what has transpired in our nation. May He in fact first take the veil off of our eyes so that we might observe the destruction all around us.... no longer capable of ignoring it...... and that we might again realize that the beauty was His all along!
Oh, I know that the rallying cry is 'make America great again,' but as I reflect on that, what comes to mind is an aged actress, once beautiful. At the height of her career she won Oscars and was considered the Queen of Cinema. She chose her roles, and her directors, and co-stars, and film studios and producers were at her beck and call....but the wrinkles came and the makeup had to be applied heavier. The camera itself had to help her out. Time kept moving on and other actresses, just as beautiful as she had been, were getting the best roles, and the awards, and the adulation.
She would show them. She would show them all! She was still the greatest actress in the entire world. She called in favors and one film studio titan had pity on her and cast her in a role that she was too old for, but no longer would she mesmerize with her beauty...no longer would the allure be sensual.
We served a purpose. God had moved mountains, continental plates to be precise, to set this land apart from others. He brought to it a people of tremendous fortitude of which He supplied the strength...a people who would worship Him in freedom in a new land. Our purpose was in exalting God and not ourselves. It would be His land.....and for a short time it was.... but many decades would follow, even centuries, and we would see the pagan idolatry all around us and depart from Him who had blessed us so.
In a way we are today that aging actress. The red carpet that we walk on is the stain of Communism under our feet. Only we too will show them all. We'll show the entire world that are still the greatest. Only we will do it without God this time for He will no longer be our producer and our director. We will direct ourselves and maybe, if we remember, permit Him to come to the premier! But what we will find out real soon is that our greatness was in God Almighty....alone! He favored us with great minds and entrepeneurism and fortitude and courage and invention and a wonderful work ethic....it was He that secured our borders and kept our enemies at bay. It was He that our forefathers bowed down to in prayer and who they put their trust in. It was He who picked us up every time we stumbled.....and it was also He that has been warning us for upwards of seventy years that our rebellion would have severe consequences
We looked into a big screen and saw an aging God, shriveled up and we perceived the image as ugly. And ugly it was...even grotesque....but it was no silver screen....it was a mirror! May God have mercy upon us as we seek to defeat our enemies in our own might. May He forgive us for not falling down before Him in humility at what has transpired in our nation. May He in fact first take the veil off of our eyes so that we might observe the destruction all around us.... no longer capable of ignoring it...... and that we might again realize that the beauty was His all along!
