I've been to college twice in my life. The first time was in the early to mid-70s on the G. I. Bill, and the second time was at fifty years of age. In that second matriculation I was part of a cohort that went through the curriculum together for eighteen months. Most had just finished their baccalaureate degrees....some were in their thirties....two or three of us were fifty years old or older.
The classes were very informal where class participation at times turned into conversation. It was on one of these evenings around eighteen years ago that I stood up for emphasis and told my fellow cohort members that a division was coming to America unlike anything we could even imagine at the time. It wasn't just going to get worse....it was going to metastasize. The class was quiet for a few moments as I remember it....not stunned but surprised at how serious I was....and then the subject was changed.
Whether it is unhinged Democrats or Roseanne....or Maxine Waters' impromptu in-your-face press salvos or President Trump's constant barrage of in-your face attack tweets....or feminist comediennes or Peter Fonda or NFL protests or the Obama/Hillary deep state coup or the mainstream media or television talk show host meltdowns or riots or....well just read Drudge.....there's probably three or four stories on it right now that evidence a people that no longer has God's hand upon them.
All of this is judgment from God....Bill and Hillary were judgment from God....as was George W.....as was Barack Obama....and as is Donald Trump! In fact this whole fake prosperity and 'make America great again' kick that we are on is a total lack of discernment....and thus judgment from God. Barack Obama famously lied in "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Donald Trump essentially does the same thing to us as he promises that things are only going to get better and better.....and that we will get tired of winning!
We played fast and loose with God....fashioning our own faddish gospel message that reads well on a tee-shirt or LED church signage....and now we don't have two nickels of discernment to rub together....and Donald Trump is proof of it....not that he is worse than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for he rescued us from them....but whereas before Trump we at least were aware of our dire situation....and now we are unaware. We are foot loose and fancy free as to who God is.....and any warnings that He may have given us.
Possibly....should God have mercy upon us....the evidence all around us that we do not see...that we are not 'winning' but that we are on the brink....will give our pulpits an unction....our synods boldness....and humble the rest of us in that we....through our lack of vigilance....have over many decades brought all this looming calamity upon us....and that we might return to Him as our only strength and our only fortress.
The classes were very informal where class participation at times turned into conversation. It was on one of these evenings around eighteen years ago that I stood up for emphasis and told my fellow cohort members that a division was coming to America unlike anything we could even imagine at the time. It wasn't just going to get worse....it was going to metastasize. The class was quiet for a few moments as I remember it....not stunned but surprised at how serious I was....and then the subject was changed.
Whether it is unhinged Democrats or Roseanne....or Maxine Waters' impromptu in-your-face press salvos or President Trump's constant barrage of in-your face attack tweets....or feminist comediennes or Peter Fonda or NFL protests or the Obama/Hillary deep state coup or the mainstream media or television talk show host meltdowns or riots or....well just read Drudge.....there's probably three or four stories on it right now that evidence a people that no longer has God's hand upon them.
All of this is judgment from God....Bill and Hillary were judgment from God....as was George W.....as was Barack Obama....and as is Donald Trump! In fact this whole fake prosperity and 'make America great again' kick that we are on is a total lack of discernment....and thus judgment from God. Barack Obama famously lied in "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Donald Trump essentially does the same thing to us as he promises that things are only going to get better and better.....and that we will get tired of winning!
We played fast and loose with God....fashioning our own faddish gospel message that reads well on a tee-shirt or LED church signage....and now we don't have two nickels of discernment to rub together....and Donald Trump is proof of it....not that he is worse than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for he rescued us from them....but whereas before Trump we at least were aware of our dire situation....and now we are unaware. We are foot loose and fancy free as to who God is.....and any warnings that He may have given us.
Possibly....should God have mercy upon us....the evidence all around us that we do not see...that we are not 'winning' but that we are on the brink....will give our pulpits an unction....our synods boldness....and humble the rest of us in that we....through our lack of vigilance....have over many decades brought all this looming calamity upon us....and that we might return to Him as our only strength and our only fortress.
