The split within the American public as to constitutionalism and progressivism...where we are two peoples in one nation.... is judgment from God. The split within the constitutionalists as to Rinos and Conservatives.....John McCain types vs Ted Cruz types....is judgment from God. I'm not done. The split within conservatism as to genuine conservatives and Trumpsters....those who actually have an ideology and those who just want to defeat Democrats.....is judgment from God. The split within real conservatives as to those who......as did America's Founding Fathers....know that God alone brings kings to power and establishes nations according to His purposes, and those who constantly say 'God bless America' but place God in importance somewhere between our 401k and the price for a gallon of gas.....is a judgment from God. And one last thing.....the split within America's Christian pulpits as to those actually preach the cross of Jesus Christ and not only plead His mercies but warn of his judgments and those who kind of stumble over the cross a few times a year and never break evangelicalism's 11th commandment.....thous shalt not rain on the Christian's Fourth of July picnic....is judgment from God.
Place the problems that we have with China or North Korea or Putin or Iran or our deficit or our decaying culture or our future in general....place these things up against this dictum and on this grid.....and America loses. We simply do not have enough American citizens who wholly depend on the One alone who can give us wisdom and determination enough to survive let alone prosper....we are not great enough in numbers to make much of an impact. That final number after whittled down as God whittled down Gideon's army is probably around 10%.
Now this analysis certainly goes against the accepted analysis of grass roots....honey badger tenacity.....to get control of the halls of power. Our only hope is in our pulpits proclaiming the "immeasurable greatness of His power".....as proclaimed in His Word....but here is the crux of the problem. In the Old Testament the Israelites at times repented and were restored....and at other times took all the judgments and only grew harder in their rebellion against God. Which are we? Only time will tell.
Folks, only a week ago or so I wrote a post encouraging conservatives to run for public office. I've been involved in this original grass roots movements for at least two decades. Politics is not a waste of time....in fact it is necessary....but it is also totally dependent upon the humility and dependence upon God of the people running for office and therefore the electorate who put them in office. I revert here to the first paragraph of this post....we are right now not any where near depending upon the mercies of God....consequently we are Bull Dogs on throwing Hillary in jail but lapdogs as to thinking outside the Rush Limbaugh radio show..
One useful resource in gauging where Americans are at is the Pew Research Center. High numbers claim to be Christian but whittle that number down by looking at their particular beliefs and you find once again that number is down around to the 10% level. Pray for our pulpits...pray for humility where we acknowledge that we thought that we could do this on our own....only to realize the truth and the power in...."I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5 ESV)
