Hello Again My Chickadees.
There is nothing new under the sun. What has been, has already begun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 gives a grim prediction of the fate and state of what could be the once great, but late, United States. We are advised to pray for our country and our leadership, and we absolutely should—because we all need prayer. But the powers that be seem oblivious to the fact that they need to be also praying for themselves and the decisions that God has given them the power to make.
It seems that we are in a season of ‘Roll Backs.’ Roll back our policies on immigration. Roll back Roe vs. Wade. Roll back anything that has to do with affirmative action designed to give a fair share to everyone seeking to have a slice of the American pie. Roll back on teaching our kids the truth about our history or life, out of concern that it may offend the powers that be. Roll back the books that educate, reveal, and make aware, the good, the bad, and the very, VERY, ugly truth about our lack of love and terror inflicted upon others that don’t look like us. When you get right down to it, when we put the need for power over the needs of people; we find ourselves in a downward trajectory to destruction.
We have but to look at the rise and fall of other great empires who we have all read about which no longer exist. One might ask, well what happened to them? If you just look on the surface you may say, well they were out-witted, or out-maneuvered by an opposing force; but if you examine the outcome from a spiritual perspective, any branch that is separated from the vine will wither and die (John 15:5). This truth is applicable whether you are an individual or a country. When we become so self- important and so blinded by our own perceived power that we deny or ignore the source of that power, we are on a collision course with destruction. The insidiousness of perceived power is that you become so blinded by your own self-importance that you deny that there is a power that is greater than you; and it is that power that blessed you to be where you are, or accomplish what you accomplished. As a result of the blindness of self-importance and the deception of power, we miss the warning signs. We separated ourselves from the vine and the withering of our branch is so subtle that we don’t notice that our branch is in decay until it’s too late. We become so puffed up with our own self-importance and grandiose façade, that we ignore the warnings or miss the signs that we need to stop, take stock of the root cause for the decay, and change our course of action.
The God that we serve is patient, kind, and l-o-n-g- suffering, but there comes a time that even God says, ’Enough is Enough.’ Who else can shut the entire world down to try to get our attention? We called it a pandemic, and those of us who cover ourselves in God’s word called it a plague; but whatever you want to call it, we need to say to ourselves, maybe God is trying to tell us something. Maybe our way is not The Way. Since there is nothing new under the sun, 2 Chronicles 7:14 offers a biblical solution to our decaying country and world. It states, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land.” We certainly have had plenty of the proof of that fact with the Nation of Israel throughout history. What else needs to happen to get our attention to the fact that our way is NOT working. We work in vain because we have denied and all but eliminated the one true power that has the power to save.
As you can probably glean from my message this month, I am fired up about where we are headed. I stand with others who are trying to sound the alarm that we are on the wrong path, and unless we follow the prescription given in 2 Chronicles 7:14 for healing a sick nation, we too will go the way all other great kingdoms and nations have gone. We think we’re ‘woke,’ but are we really? The antidote for our sickness lies in reconnecting to “The Vine” we assumed we were independent from. If we REALLY want to “Make America Great Again,” we need to take Lady Liberty’s blindfold off so she can see the path of destruction, pain, and misery she has caused in the pursuit of power, not only here in this country but all over the world. The God of love, who is the one who IS all powerful, cannot be pleased. We tend to leave a ‘trail of tears’ wherever we go; and God cannot be pleased. God desires to bless His people, but He cannot bless our mess.
Where are we headed? Well, that depends on us and the choices we make. In the words of Robert Ellis, “Choice, not chance determines human destiny.” It is my prayer that in all our rolling back, we will roll back to our profession of “In God we trust,” and really live out that profession.
Peace and Blessings,
Gail
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