I shouldn't be this angry going into the second holiest season of the year, Easter, but I am. Upset is more the word actually and profoundly disappointed. You can see in everywhere and everyplace the war that is going on in this country. Now it's not so much a visible war with human casualties on a battlefield, or immense property damage, but an invisible war. One that is surely tearing at the unity and fabric of our nation and it's time that we consider a radical turnaround of our path because we are headed off a cliff and the consequences will be tragic. The war I'm talking about is the war for our souls both individually and collectively. This is the war that does the most damage. Because it changes the hearts and minds of it's people and therefore changes their behavior, values, level of reason and compassion and the ability to govern fairly. It's insatiable appetite for destruction and desolation goes beyond Democrat or Republican, black or white, Christian or not, gay or straight, child or adult. It's absolute in it's reach and deadly in it's accuracy. I call it moral secession.
We have already or are in the process of abandoning our nation's heritage from both a constitutional and moral application of the law that was set up by Godly men with a divine set of precepts to work from. These founding fathers warned us quite vociferously about the dangers of straying away from our pathway of blessing and righteousness. Let me quote a few of them if I may that you may not have heard or know about.
John Adams
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Benjamin Franklin
"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth--that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"
Thomas Paine
"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, some say, is the king of America? I'll tell you, friend, He reigns above."
Daniel Webster
"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end."
Abraham Lincoln
"We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
Wow, and some would say that our country was not founded on Christian principles including our current president. I could go on and on. The warnings were many and just as poignant. What's even more frightening is the accuracy of their statements almost from a prophetic standpoint. What made these men of courage, wisdom and foresight speak this way? They all had a reverent fear of the Lord and a great love for His supreme authority over their lives. They knew as we now are finding out that the abandonment of Him has resulted in the loss of our blessings. Quite simply as the flame of Christ flickers weakly in our hardened hearts we are reaping the consequences of such actions. But it is not too late for us! God is just and quick to forgive and quicker more to restore. We need the unifying love of Jesus Christ to heal our great nation. We don't need self serving politicians who line their pockets for personal gain at the expense of others hard work. We need to quit berating our fellow citizens political views and instead question their moral choices that inevitably destine their philosophical and ideological paths. We need to go back to our traditional God given and equally blessing values to reeducate our hearts and minds. This starts in the homes with families, the schools with educators and administrators with a traditional and historically accurate curriculum and churches with a pastorate that is without apostasy and heresy, that preaches the true gospel message of Christ. We won't get it from MSNBC, FOX, MTV, reality TV or the internet. They are full of their own opinions driven by ratings and money. Truth came from above, forged by the life of Jesus Christ and stands as perfect witness today to the wicked state of our world today as it did 2,000+ years ago. Nothing has changed except out accelerated state of decay. So this political season be in prayer for our country as you cast a vote. Because if you have a righteous heart and you are in the center of God's will then you can't make a wrong decision! But time is running out!
Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
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