I’ve been looking at the world lately thinking of how desperately bad things have gotten. Economies failing everywhere, God pushed out of every arena, and democracy and liberty attacked everywhere. The violence must be hugely surpassing Noah’s day. Only a rainbow saves us from that fate. But why could it get this bad with churches on every corner? Not just in the US but everywhere? Why have all the values He gave us to live by been thrown aside like so much trash? The church, which God calls fallen, has accountability for the way thing are. That’s alway been so, but we are coming to a culmination of events which speaks of tribulation.
Where is the church? Folded in upon itself and barricaded against the state of the world all around them. They speak of projects they are doing, they speak of prosperity, they speak about how much God loves them; but their hands are not clean before Him. As freedom after freedom falls away, and as Jesus is deeply rejected on every level, where are they to say: THERE IS HOPE IN DESPAIR. Jesus is the only way out of this unholy mess the world has become. If the church had lifted up the light of the world as the mission of their saved lives, would it have made a difference? YES.
YES, because the Father we love, Creator of all things, can save us from ourselves. He would have, through them, brought hope to the suicidal, truth to the murderer, and a way out of darkness. Many would have come, who didn’t come, if only they had loved Him above themselves. So, blood is on their hands, suicides and murders that could have been prevented, had they, the church, only allowed Him to lead them.
When will you wake up to the battlefield of the Father? When will you really help Him the way HE LEADS you to help Him? His way would have borne fruit; your own understanding has borne nothing. Bear fruit NOW. Wake up, stand up, and oppose the attack on the values of our Father, and the attack on His Son. The liberty our Creator endowed to us is being taken down on a daily basis. He speaks. He will show you what to do. If you don’t ask Him, and listen to Him, and then follow Him into the darkness, then you will have to give account to Him as to why it seemed to many that the church was never even here.
Silv…I know what you are saying and I support all the efforts being made by our citizens to return us to our Biblically-based foundations; but honestly, I think the only liberty we have is what we have “in Christ”. While we celebrated our Independence from Great Britain, our Pastor pointed out that we have also lost our sense of DEpendence on God.
By: Jo Anne on July 6, 2010
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