It’s a dangerous thing for a nation to decide that God is no longer relevant.
Whenever society enacts policies and laws that are void of any regard for God and his word, you can be sure that trouble will soon follow.
Any time that man becomes convinced of his superiority in matters of humanity and proceeds to embark on a path that takes him away from God, the remembrance of nations who long ago became extinct will remind him of the folly of such endeavors.
When mercy and truth are relegated to the furthest recesses of the mind and no place can be found for them in the halls of rulers, kings, or presidents, Satan is given free reign to pour out his wrath upon a society blinded by ignorance.
A people who have chosen not to retain the knowledge of God among them is by all accounts a people awash in sin and degradation, hopelessly entangled in their own filth, unable to know the cleansing freedom that can only be found in Christ.
1 Hear the word of the Lord,
You children of Israel,
For the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land:
“There is no truth or mercy
Or knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing and lying,
Killing and stealing and committing adultery,
They break all restraint,
With bloodshed upon bloodshed.
3 Therefore the land will mourn; … Hosea 4
Our land is in a perpetual state of mourning, and as a result many have lost hope. Not just for today, but hope for a brighter future. Hope for a better tomorrow.
The most amazing thing about all of this is that God’s children do have hope. We, like faithful Abraham, are looking for a city ‘whose builder and maker is God‘ (Heb. 11:10).
Like the story found within the pages of the book of Hosea, we long for the day of reconciliation, when God gathers his elect from the four quarters of the earth.
We are living examples of a hope that is not of this world, but of a world to come where love rules and evil has been forever banished.
To many that sounds like a fairy tale, but to the Christian who is exhausted from years of unceasing spiritual warfare, it offers the promise of rest.
I thank God that while I may be a resident of this earth, I am looking for the day when I become a citizen of heaven.
A place where mourning of any kind will never be heard again. Until then, may the Lord somehow call us back to ‘the old paths, where the good way is…’ Jeremiah 6:16
Ron
Dec 04, 2018 @ 01:03:09
A powerful message, much needed by this nation, Ron.
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Dec 04, 2018 @ 07:39:22
There are many times Anna when I seem to be unable to do anything but mourn for our nation. Call me naive, maybe even foolish, but I cannot help but pray that our eyes will be opened to God’s truth.
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Dec 04, 2018 @ 11:03:17
You’ve taken the words right out of my mouth.
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Dec 04, 2018 @ 15:35:57
That day can’t come soon enough. In the meantime, I’ve had to pray about what’s going on in our world, and especially in our country, to avoid bitterness and hopelessness. Thank you for this very timely blog post.
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Dec 04, 2018 @ 16:10:47
Agreed Terri. I have to be very careful about the bitterness thing as well because it is so easy to give yourself over to thoughts of despair and hopelessness. This verse has always helped me to refocus on what’s most important:
“I lift up my eyes to the hills.From where does my help come”? Psalm 121:1
Have a great day!
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