Folks, posts like these that I write, 'dispatches' as I like to consider them, eyewitness accounts so to speak....sent to others who because of time and circumstances view these things from afar, are not often well or even easily received. If these messages do resonate with you... I would appreciate your help in disseminating them in any way that you are able to. Thank you for that.
I keep expecting Kirk Russell or Arnold Schwarzenegger to appear in the headlines for we may be just one brick wall collapse shy of being a dystopian society.....and you know what.....we can't even see it.....for that apparently is the way societies collapse.....some know the severity of what is happening.....most do not.
A year ago today we were worried. By 'we' I mean conservatives. The 2016 election became our life. Our spiritual discernment, already in a severely weakened state, was numbed by a year of debates and polls and rallies. All of this culminated on that glorious evening in early November when Hillary Rodham Clinton was relegated to the ash heap of history. All the worry vanished along with the incessant television political ads. We were going to make America great again. God had blessed our efforts in the election. No one worried anymore, not about having their guns taken away, or God's judgment.
This is a fine scenario but unfortunately a false one. Some of it is surely true. We were indeed worried....some even about God's judgment.....but that early November evening was far from glorious. Yes, gone are hundreds of government regulations that stifled economic growth but remaining is a 20 trillion dollar debt, maybe 100 million if you calculate properly, that is hell-bent on collapsing even if a world war doesn't cause it. When a nation becomes such as we have become, where half of our population has a death wish, it cannot survive. It is not only Donald Trump.....no man.....not even Jim DeMint (the best example that I can think of) could save this once great nation....let alone rally the country back to greatness.
We are corrupt to our core....and that core corruption explains why we cannot see how far that we have fallen. I'll use a theological analogy that some Christians may recognize. Man is not totally depraved where he does nothing but evil, but every facet of his being is corrupted in some way....right down to the core. This is the condition of man since the fall in the Garden of Eden. It's only the common grace that God provides that we do not kill each other every moment of every day.
In America we once had the wisdom to protect the rule of law. We no longer do. We once at least knew what was good and what was evil. That discernment is all but gone. We were once known as a 'people of the book.' We are now a Facebook people. There were long periods where we relied on God. We now rely only on the power of the people. Our churches once had the wisdom to protect God's law. They no longer do. They once, long ago, recognized a false teaching and a false teacher. Today we fill arenas listening to them. They once warned. Today they only only promise.
It is not, nor ever was, the power of the lectern with the Seal of the President adorning it that could restore us to health. It is only, and always has been only, our pulpits preaching the 'seal' of the Holy Spirit upon trusting individuals...that might persuade God to have mercy upon us. Pray for our leaders yes....pray for our pulpits first!
I keep expecting Kirk Russell or Arnold Schwarzenegger to appear in the headlines for we may be just one brick wall collapse shy of being a dystopian society.....and you know what.....we can't even see it.....for that apparently is the way societies collapse.....some know the severity of what is happening.....most do not.
A year ago today we were worried. By 'we' I mean conservatives. The 2016 election became our life. Our spiritual discernment, already in a severely weakened state, was numbed by a year of debates and polls and rallies. All of this culminated on that glorious evening in early November when Hillary Rodham Clinton was relegated to the ash heap of history. All the worry vanished along with the incessant television political ads. We were going to make America great again. God had blessed our efforts in the election. No one worried anymore, not about having their guns taken away, or God's judgment.
This is a fine scenario but unfortunately a false one. Some of it is surely true. We were indeed worried....some even about God's judgment.....but that early November evening was far from glorious. Yes, gone are hundreds of government regulations that stifled economic growth but remaining is a 20 trillion dollar debt, maybe 100 million if you calculate properly, that is hell-bent on collapsing even if a world war doesn't cause it. When a nation becomes such as we have become, where half of our population has a death wish, it cannot survive. It is not only Donald Trump.....no man.....not even Jim DeMint (the best example that I can think of) could save this once great nation....let alone rally the country back to greatness.
We are corrupt to our core....and that core corruption explains why we cannot see how far that we have fallen. I'll use a theological analogy that some Christians may recognize. Man is not totally depraved where he does nothing but evil, but every facet of his being is corrupted in some way....right down to the core. This is the condition of man since the fall in the Garden of Eden. It's only the common grace that God provides that we do not kill each other every moment of every day.
In America we once had the wisdom to protect the rule of law. We no longer do. We once at least knew what was good and what was evil. That discernment is all but gone. We were once known as a 'people of the book.' We are now a Facebook people. There were long periods where we relied on God. We now rely only on the power of the people. Our churches once had the wisdom to protect God's law. They no longer do. They once, long ago, recognized a false teaching and a false teacher. Today we fill arenas listening to them. They once warned. Today they only only promise.
It is not, nor ever was, the power of the lectern with the Seal of the President adorning it that could restore us to health. It is only, and always has been only, our pulpits preaching the 'seal' of the Holy Spirit upon trusting individuals...that might persuade God to have mercy upon us. Pray for our leaders yes....pray for our pulpits first!
