The following post is from this past November...slightly rewritten. It's an opinion that we don't want to hear. We need more than a revival in our nation....we need a general awakening.....but we are going the other way......depending more upon our own perceived power each and every day. God has given us what we demanded of Him.....we wanted a king.....we got it.....we wanted to determine our own destiny with no help from Him.....we got it. Everything that we are experiencing today are judgments in response to what we wanted.
The split within the American public as to constitutionalists and progressives.....where we are two distinct 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 also judgment from God. I'm not done. The split within conservatism as to genuine conservatives and Trumpsters....those who do not easily abandon their professed beliefs and those who just want to put America first no matter how many formerly professed beliefs they have to abandon.....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 think it enough to just constantly say 'God bless America'.....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.....who not only plead His mercies but warn of his judgments....and those who kind of stumble over the cross a few times a year....is judgment from God.
The split within the American public as to constitutionalists and progressives.....where we are two distinct 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 also judgment from God. I'm not done. The split within conservatism as to genuine conservatives and Trumpsters....those who do not easily abandon their professed beliefs and those who just want to put America first no matter how many formerly professed beliefs they have to abandon.....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 think it enough to just constantly say 'God bless America'.....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.....who not only plead His mercies but warn of his judgments....and those who kind of stumble over the cross a few times a year....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 Americans 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.
Now this analysis certainly goes against the accepted dependence on grass roots....honey badger tenacity.....to get control of the halls of power.....whereas our only real hope is in our pulpits proclaiming the "immeasurable greatness of His power".....as proclaimed in His Word. 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 movement for at least two decades. Politics is not a waste of time....in fact it is necessary....but its value is totally dependent upon the humility and dependence upon God of the people in office....and therefore the electorate who put them in office.
One useful resource in gauging where Americans are at is the Pew Research Center. High numbers claim to be Christian but that number is whittled down to a small fraction as we look at their particular beliefs. Pray for our pulpits.....and pray for humility where we acknowledge that we thought that we could do this on our own....only to be reminded that Jesus said"....apart from Me you can do nothing.".....and then that we would realize that we truly can do nothing apart from Him who called us....formed us....sustained us with much longsuffering....and has warned us upwards of a half century.....only to see us not only choose an arrogant prince......but then claim that God gave him to us to make us great again.
