I think that with President Trump as the chief executive....and Schumer and Pelosi.....and McConnell and McCarthy (same old Establishment) heading up the Congress....and John Roberts as Chief Justice....and Merkel and Emmanuel (God with us) Macron and Theresa May and Trudeau leading the free world.....and Rush Limbaugh....(who has sold out completely to Trumpism)....as the conservative's leading defender....and Putin and Xi Jinping playing chess with a man who would probably have trouble with the rules of Go Fish....(Do you have any sixes?....No....just this one but if I look at it upside down it's a nine) I think there's reason for a little trembling. The following post is from September at the height of the Kavanaugh chaos:
Apparently Laura Ingraham has known Brett Kavanaugh for twenty-five years and after the character assassination directed at Kavanaugh over the last few days she said...."I tremble for our country." Now do you think that she really trembled? After all that's a pretty strong word. Maybe that's just her way of dramatizing the moment? Let me tell you folks.....I believe that she trembled.....because that's what I've been doing for a long time. She's just a decade late and a dollar short.
Being retired as I am I get out and about quite a bit.....and this recurring thought comes back to me as I walk on a beautiful day.....with mothers pushing children in their strollers.....as a motorcycle scoots by ridden by a guy about my age having the time of his life.....with people passing by and exchanging pleasantries.....if this is all you are looking at......then yes....maybe America can again be a Norman Rockwell scene.
But you cannot judge the health of a nation by what you see on our pristine middle-class American streets....and especially not by the serenity of our gated communities. You could probably get the same feeling somewhere in Iran or Turkey....or all over England or France.....and certainly in Israel. God isn't going to judge the manicured lawns or the clean streets or the Christmas Hallmark scenes. He's not going to judge the animals or the highways or the hillsides or the mountains......He judges people!
We have 300 million plus people now in the United States. We've been legally killing babies now for almost a half century. Liberty is no longer our calling card....violence is. If there is a Biblical value....it's being attacked. This is a college professor involved in the Brett Kavanaugh attacks....Anita Hill was a college professor.....Angela Davis is a college professor. Folks...this is college in the United States of America! This is what we call....higher....education! Oh yes....you'll get to learn how to put together a spreadsheet on why hamburgers are not selling but you won't get to learn how to think or reason or analyze beyond why people bought their insurance because of the cute goose on its commercials.
Have you heard Judge Roy Moore mentioned in the last few days? Probably not. Brett Kavanaugh represents prosperity......Moore only represented the Bible. I doubt if conservative talk radio hosts lost any sleep over his demise....but they should have!
God is looking at a people whose forebearers at least acknowledged Him.....where most reverenced Him....and many worshiped Him.....but now half of us can't stand the thought of God. The rest of us probably read newspapers and books and magazines ninety-nine times as much as we read His very Word given to us....breathed by His Spirit....and preserved in martyr's blood.
We had better start to tremble. God has been warning us for so long that we considered it old hat decades ago. We laugh at those who relate God's warnings.....nothing new there. Billy Graham is gone folks....he gave his forty years of warnings....as did Jeremiah.
God has been patient.....with the nation....with me....and with you. His judgments started slow....had been increasing incrementally ....but now seem to be increasing almost exponentially! We are the proverbial frog in the pot! God's Word tells us to '...rejoice with trembling." (Psalm 2:11) That 'trembling' is meant to convey rejoicing in the acknowledgment of what our fate was as opposed to what our salvation is! We don't seem to rejoice with trembling anymore....we just rejoice....and we therefore miss the essence of the word!
