The following post is from last April:
It would be so easy to ignore what has happened. It wouldn't take much effort at all. Multitudes do it. It's almost as if it would be natural to purposely avoid what is before our very eyes. 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.
America 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 now we are immersed in pagan idolatry and have departed from Him who had blessed us so.
In a way we are today that aging actress. The red carpet that we walk on in the entertainment world and in academia is the stain of Communism under our feet. Only we too will show them all. We'll show the entire world that we 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 it was He 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 now look into what we perceive to be yet another silver screen and see an aging God, shriveled up, and we perceive the image as ugly. And ugly it is...even grotesque....but it's no silver screen....it's our own mirrored image! 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....recognize our deformity.... and no longer capable of ignoring what has transpired...... may we realize that the beauty was His all along!
It would be so easy to ignore what has happened. It wouldn't take much effort at all. Multitudes do it. It's almost as if it would be natural to purposely avoid what is before our very eyes. 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.
America 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 now we are immersed in pagan idolatry and have departed from Him who had blessed us so.
In a way we are today that aging actress. The red carpet that we walk on in the entertainment world and in academia is the stain of Communism under our feet. Only we too will show them all. We'll show the entire world that we 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 it was He 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 now look into what we perceive to be yet another silver screen and see an aging God, shriveled up, and we perceive the image as ugly. And ugly it is...even grotesque....but it's no silver screen....it's our own mirrored image! 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....recognize our deformity.... and no longer capable of ignoring what has transpired...... may we realize that the beauty was His all along!
