Well it's Monday...and I wonder if anyone has any story to tell on how their pastor didn't seem like the same man in the pulpit....that he seemed so very concerned for America....that he pleaded with God....because of what we have become? I have been praying for this transformation of our pulpits for a few years now. The following post was from this past December:
We have fallen so far in America that we cannot think straight. We have been told what to fear....and it is not God. We are all of a sudden patriots....as were Paul Revere or John Hancock....only whereas they risked their fortunes....we fight for our fortunes.....where they valued their sacred honor.....we have come off that high ground....to battle in the fetid swamp of deception and vain-glory....led not by a George Washington.....who some have said could not tell a lie....but by one who it seems cannot tell a truth.
We use our children....tugging them along to our protests....teaching them the intricacies of the constitution....while feeding them only the milk of God's Word....for we ourselves have nothing stronger with which to nourish them.
We shout warnings every day as a town crier....while the warnings from God's Word are censored. We are the first to give praises to God....but they are not the first praises that we offer....as we also worship at the altar of a golden calf....and the golden-haired calf.
One year ago we were riding victoriously.... into the State of the Union....where we were told that "the years of economic decay are over".....that we were...."never, ever going back"....and were...."advancing with unbridled optimism"....and that "our country is our masterpiece"....and that "the American adventure has only just begun"....that "God's grace is still shining".....and that "the best is yet to come"....but then it was God's turn....and a plague came upon us....and we became....pandemic deniers.
I have wondered....had the pandemic not been seen as a plot against Donald Trump....would we today hold the same defiant positions on social-distancing and masks and church services? Ultimately my question is....to what extent has this man changed us....and our Christian beliefs?
God had not been consulted on any of this.....only credited through our ubiquitous motto...."In God We Trust"....a God Emeritus if you will...."allowed'....as the dictionary would define it...."to retain the title as an honor."
I came across an old interview where the then Governor Ronald Reagan used the phrase...."Lord willing." Jimmy Carter would have used it often....and Abraham Lincoln spoke...."if God wills it"....in his second inaugural address. I propose that we change the motto of America from...."In God We Trust"....that has become meaningless....to "Should The Lord Will It"....for He determines what empires.....and what kings....rise and fall....and this for His purposes and not ours.
