There are well over a thousand posts here that began on November 27th, 2008. Being that the subject matter on just about all of them essentially relate in one way or another to either the Gospel of Jesus Christ or the Constitution of the United States of America....the message is as applicable today as it was then. This is why I bring so many older posts back so often.
If this post from January of 2016 resonates with your own solemn and profound sadness at what has happened to our nation then I am thankful that we can pray together for mercies undeserved and take heart at even the very thought of the return of Jesus Christ in power and glory; but if you are not compelled to pass this along to another then I have failed in what I intended to do....which is to encourage the reader to plead with others to consider the judgments upon us that are increasing with a frequency that can only point to the nearness of the return of the Lord of Glory....and to judgments upon the nations....and to the Son of Man either welcoming each soul with...."Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world".....or...."Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels."
"That Their Ridicule Be Silenced"
When a nation such as the United States of America collapses, a once God-fearing nation that owed its very existence to the benevolence of God, the collective mind of its people not only loses all vitality but it increasingly loses the ability to function at all. We can see this in the present primary season for the election of a president. As God is my witness I have to fight back tears in seeing what is going on. The Republic is a shambles...its people unable to mentally compose itself. If there were no other threats to this nation, this campaign alone should be enough to strike fear into our hearts.
This land of the First Amendment no longer has a news media to inform its citizens. It was once believed that at least Fox News gave a credible witness to what was going on in the world but it has collapsed also. the National Review is in chaos as any of the left-wing magazines. Radio waves are all that gives us news of the assaults upon our nation from within and without. Our youth have shown no signs whatsoever of any intellectual maturity, therefore no hope that they might buttress attempts to fortify anything of substance that remains.
We are as a people a drunken mob willing to run a battering ram through any door that holds us back from our personal desires. We bear no resemblance to to either pilgrims or colonists, Washington or Jefferson, Lincoln or the greatest generation. We have besmirched the memory of sacrifices from every battlefield from Concord to Fallujah. Our entertainments are an orgy, our blindness the hangover and our politics the selling of aborted baby parts stemming from our wild weekends.
May God humble us by driving the Christian ministers of this nation to their knees, so much so that they take to the pulpits pleading mercies upon a wayward people nearing self-destruction; and may He do so for His name sake alone, for His glory alone, according to His great faithfulness alone.
May His Spirit blow away the fog that has clouded our vision and give us once again a glimpse of His glory. May we see ourselves clearly as rebellious man....fall on our faces in shame....and then be touched by His compassion to then stand again... only in His strength. Surely the world looks at us as we are and smirks at the faith in God that we once had. May God have mercy on us for this reason if no other, that their ridicule be silenced... and that they may seek mercy also.
If this post from January of 2016 resonates with your own solemn and profound sadness at what has happened to our nation then I am thankful that we can pray together for mercies undeserved and take heart at even the very thought of the return of Jesus Christ in power and glory; but if you are not compelled to pass this along to another then I have failed in what I intended to do....which is to encourage the reader to plead with others to consider the judgments upon us that are increasing with a frequency that can only point to the nearness of the return of the Lord of Glory....and to judgments upon the nations....and to the Son of Man either welcoming each soul with...."Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world".....or...."Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels."
"That Their Ridicule Be Silenced"
When a nation such as the United States of America collapses, a once God-fearing nation that owed its very existence to the benevolence of God, the collective mind of its people not only loses all vitality but it increasingly loses the ability to function at all. We can see this in the present primary season for the election of a president. As God is my witness I have to fight back tears in seeing what is going on. The Republic is a shambles...its people unable to mentally compose itself. If there were no other threats to this nation, this campaign alone should be enough to strike fear into our hearts.
This land of the First Amendment no longer has a news media to inform its citizens. It was once believed that at least Fox News gave a credible witness to what was going on in the world but it has collapsed also. the National Review is in chaos as any of the left-wing magazines. Radio waves are all that gives us news of the assaults upon our nation from within and without. Our youth have shown no signs whatsoever of any intellectual maturity, therefore no hope that they might buttress attempts to fortify anything of substance that remains.
We are as a people a drunken mob willing to run a battering ram through any door that holds us back from our personal desires. We bear no resemblance to to either pilgrims or colonists, Washington or Jefferson, Lincoln or the greatest generation. We have besmirched the memory of sacrifices from every battlefield from Concord to Fallujah. Our entertainments are an orgy, our blindness the hangover and our politics the selling of aborted baby parts stemming from our wild weekends.
May God humble us by driving the Christian ministers of this nation to their knees, so much so that they take to the pulpits pleading mercies upon a wayward people nearing self-destruction; and may He do so for His name sake alone, for His glory alone, according to His great faithfulness alone.
May His Spirit blow away the fog that has clouded our vision and give us once again a glimpse of His glory. May we see ourselves clearly as rebellious man....fall on our faces in shame....and then be touched by His compassion to then stand again... only in His strength. Surely the world looks at us as we are and smirks at the faith in God that we once had. May God have mercy on us for this reason if no other, that their ridicule be silenced... and that they may seek mercy also.
