“So fear the Lord and serve him wholeheartedly. Put
away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they lived beyond the
Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord alone. 15 But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will
serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or
will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me
and my family, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua
24:14-15 (NLT)
In 1991 I preached a message
to the church I was serving. It was near
Independence Day. I said this about our
political roots:
We were founded as a
Democracy, based upon the basic Judeo-Christian model of Holy Scripture; we
have been called a Christian nation - Our pledge of allegiance even says we are
one nation under God. But we are no
longer a Christian nation.
There are some looks you
never forget.
At the sound of my words,
one lady had the look of someone who'd been shot between the eyes. She didn't move the rest of the service, deep
in thought. After the service she came
to me and said, Oh, Pastor, are we not a Christian nation anymore? What are we? I gently placed my hand on her shoulder and
said, Dottie, we are a secular nation. She thought a minute, and then asked, When
did it happen? Nobody told me.
Friends - it matters little
when, why, where and how our worldview changed from humbly bowing before God to
bowing before the altar of political correctness, polls and secular
humanism. It matters little what the
final outcome is in the Electoral College.
What does matter is that
America has largely ceased to be good - we have ceased to be aflame with
passion for righteousness; we have become steeped in the stench of passionate
personal desire and selfishness.
Only a return to Jesus can
put our nation and world in a position to let God do the fixing! Our nation must return ONE PERSON AT A TIME,
beginning with me!
And if there are enough
individual believers who will make that choice, together we can exert the
influence of a holy and righteous God towards this nation, that our destiny
might not take its place with Sodom and Gomorrah.
As we turn together to Him,
the promise from Jesus is that He will not turn us away. The Father promises - and His promises don't
whither or fade - they're forever!
For You Today
Just like me, you cannot
control the actions of a single other person on this planet, much less the
course of an entire nation. But we can
be faithful.
Walk with Christ today; be
the change someone needs to see.
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