The sun is dropping in the west for the United States. What began 520 years ago when Christopher Columbus stumbled upon, or bumped into, the Bahamas and Caribbean Islands made this country great. He didn’t know what he had found, but when he stepped ashore, he gave thanks to a Christian God for a journey safely completed. From that day forward, the history of the United States of America, its growth, prosperity, and traditions, were based on the teachings, ethics, and belief in Christianity and the strength of Jesus Christ.
At this point I can imagine the number of readers who have, or are, switching out of this writing. God no longer holds the place of esteem He once did in the United States. As a matter of fact while people claim to believe in God, few will admit to a belief in, or the existence of, Jesus. Our leaders, president, members of congress, state and local officials, have by their actions in recent years, have turned away from God, for whatever reason, and replaced him with pacts made with the Devil. If you think not, look around.
Abortions occur at a rate of more than 1.2 million a year.
Adultery and homosexuality are taught in public schools.
Perjury, lying, and falsification of records is rampant in government as well as in private life.
Theft, tax evasion, stealing from businesses and government is common place and little is done to curtail it.
Personal liberty has been curtailed and now restricts free movement throughout the country.
Personal property is being taken without justification.
Freedom to practice religion has been restricted.
And the list goes on.
If these offenses sound familiar they should as they are all included in God’s commandments handed down to us with mosaic law. And this is the problem.
We have ticked God off.
You think I’m wrong? Then consider this. From the 1607 settlement of Jamestown, God has played a major part in the success of the United States. The major reason for the immigration to the English colonies was the desire to enjoy the free practice of religion. There was also the desire to build fortunes, which provided the incentive for European speculators to invest large sums of money into transporting immigrants to the New World. The colonies were the land of opportunity for everyone who came, rich or poor. Everybody had a chance. Not all were successful, but all had one common cause, the ability to worship Jesus Christ and God almighty on their terms, not on, nor by, the edicts of others. The colonies flourished.
In the mid-1700s the king of England, George III, overstepped his bounds, raised taxes, enacted punitive laws against the colonials, and generally made life uneasy for them. On July 4, 1776, the colonies revolted, took up arms, and eventually kicked the British out of what is now the United States. They sent a letter to George, the Declaration of Independence, stating that he had breached the rights of the people living in the colonies. In short they said “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” They knew that God was involved in their prosperity, success, and lives. Churches of the time, regardless of denomination, knew the same thing. Sermons were preached about freedom and liberty, which were considered to be gifts from God.
People had no question as to the influence and importance of God and Jesus to their well being. Based on that premise, the 13 colonies rose from a wilderness to what became the most prosperous and mighty nation which ever existed in the world.
Consider what followed. The United States fed the world, was victorious in two world wars, helped nations recover from disasters, provided protection and comfort to all who required it, believed in God and Jesus and prospered like no other nation which ever existed. We prospered because we believed. We prospered because we believed in God, and God was pleased of what we did.
But then came liberalism. Homosexuality, abortion, drugs, the decline of individual responsibility, welfare payments for non-working able-bodied people, free and open sex, openly corrupt politicians, were accepted as the new morality. Working within God’s laws was discarded.
Churches turned their backs to sin and corruption. Government threats increased. Freedom of speech from the pulpit declined, not only because of government pressure, but from fear of intimidation by preachers by a government which held tax laws as threats. The clergy, not wanting to be hassled, not willing to taking a stand for God and Christ in public where they may be held responsible, backed off. Sermons became non-confrontational. The church as a watcher of the public good, as a bell-weather of morality, ceased to exist. It became in short, neutered.
Today as a nation the United States is not the Christian, morally responsible country it once was. It has left its passionate Christianity behind. Jesus Christ no longer fills the hearts and lives of its citizens. God knows what has happened. And God also knows that man, self-centered, selfish, sinful, doesn’t really care.
Check your history. You will learn one thing. Believe in God and things are good. Desert God and things turn sour. God has no patience with those who turn against him. God has no place for those who defy him. God will hand out judgment to those who do not follow his ways. And when nations leave his bidding, they shall suffer as well.
Our future lies with God, good times or bad. Jesus gave His life so that no matter how bad our life on earth becomes, we can still be accepted to a better life after this one. But without the acceptance of Jesus Christ’s teachings as a nation, the United States will not return to the land of liberty, freedom, and prosperity it once was.
If you think I’m wrong, then you explain to me how we ended up in the mess we are in.
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