The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Micah 4:5,
"All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever."
We all have a choice. And, as all nations, our nation has a choice. America was established under the auspices of a recognition of God's grace and a determination to seek it. Here is where the rights we have inherited find their origin, meaning and expression. Here is were America has achieved an uncommon and remarkable prosperity. Here is where we have, as a nation, discovered exceptional opportunity and outcome.
"All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever."
We all have a choice. And, as all nations, our nation has a choice. America was established under the auspices of a recognition of God's grace and a determination to seek it. Here is where the rights we have inherited find their origin, meaning and expression. Here is were America has achieved an uncommon and remarkable prosperity. Here is where we have, as a nation, discovered exceptional opportunity and outcome.
However, today, the people of America are hell-bent on a separation-leading-to-divorce with God and the outcome is unknown, as well as unnerving to consider.
America does not have to abandon God, as it is simply a choice, the trajectory, so many are pushing the country to take:
We don't need a Creator, we will manage the creation ourselves through the EPA. We will "heal" the planet ourselves through carbon credits and taxes.
We were not created by any "god" as male and female, we will decide what gender we are.
We do not need God as our provider: we have social safety nets, welfare, food stamps, Obamacare.
We don't recognize any righteous and holy God as our Judge: we will "evolve" on homosexuality and same sex marriage.
We don't recognize the life God gives us as holy and sacred, we will decide who lives and dies because we are "pro-choice."
You get the picture. Mankind is lumbering toward a "global community" in its effort to return to the Tower of Babel, to throw any vestige of the knowledge of God behind its back, to reject God, to replace God with himself as god. "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them." Romans 1:18-19. "For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles." Romans 1:21-22.
"They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error." Romans 1:25-27.
The reality is that a person's politics are not arrived at intellectually. A person's politics are not the sum of a college education or indoctrination (I repeat myself) as harmful as that is for our young impressionable minds. Rather, politics are arrived at spiritually.
Many may balk at that notion, but it is truthful. A person's political persuasions are dictated by a person's spiritual condition - how they think about God, where they look to for answers, how moral guidelines for society are arrived at, what we should expect from one another and how we should treat one another. I'm not talking Democrat versus Republican, but I am talking about the perspectives of who's to blame for our cultural ills, how we rectify the societal failures of a culture dominated by a collective sinful nature, etc.
Here is where Micah's words are so important for us to consider today. Will we walk in the name of the Lord our God? Or, as a nation, will we abandon him? Will we continue in the footsteps laid by our country's forefathers that have brought such blessing to our country or will we abandon God?
"All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever." What will America do? Her future is at stake...
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com
America does not have to abandon God, as it is simply a choice, the trajectory, so many are pushing the country to take:
We don't need a Creator, we will manage the creation ourselves through the EPA. We will "heal" the planet ourselves through carbon credits and taxes.
We were not created by any "god" as male and female, we will decide what gender we are.
We do not need God as our provider: we have social safety nets, welfare, food stamps, Obamacare.
We don't recognize any righteous and holy God as our Judge: we will "evolve" on homosexuality and same sex marriage.
We don't recognize the life God gives us as holy and sacred, we will decide who lives and dies because we are "pro-choice."
You get the picture. Mankind is lumbering toward a "global community" in its effort to return to the Tower of Babel, to throw any vestige of the knowledge of God behind its back, to reject God, to replace God with himself as god. "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them." Romans 1:18-19. "For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles." Romans 1:21-22.
"They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error." Romans 1:25-27.
The reality is that a person's politics are not arrived at intellectually. A person's politics are not the sum of a college education or indoctrination (I repeat myself) as harmful as that is for our young impressionable minds. Rather, politics are arrived at spiritually.
Many may balk at that notion, but it is truthful. A person's political persuasions are dictated by a person's spiritual condition - how they think about God, where they look to for answers, how moral guidelines for society are arrived at, what we should expect from one another and how we should treat one another. I'm not talking Democrat versus Republican, but I am talking about the perspectives of who's to blame for our cultural ills, how we rectify the societal failures of a culture dominated by a collective sinful nature, etc.
Here is where Micah's words are so important for us to consider today. Will we walk in the name of the Lord our God? Or, as a nation, will we abandon him? Will we continue in the footsteps laid by our country's forefathers that have brought such blessing to our country or will we abandon God?
"All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever." What will America do? Her future is at stake...
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com
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