Posted on 06/30/2013 12:34:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
As we prepare to celebrate the birth of this great nation, we find ourselves increasingly overwhelmed by political, judicial, and even church leaders who are dragging her down into an abyss like we have never seen before.
In our darkest moments as a nation, we have always relied on our moral foundation to keep us from falling too far. Although past leaders may have personally failed both morally and ethically, our foundation was solid.
But now, leaders are weaving their own moral and ethical blindness into the laws of the land. They are forsaking our moral foundation by rejecting God's law, so we have no one to stop us from free falling into a bottomless pit.
Today, God's moral foundations have been destroyed and His ethical gates have been burned to the ground.
This week's rulings by the US Supreme Court are now sealing the fate of our demise as a great moral nation.
Unlike the prophet Nehemiah, who acknowledged the consequences of Jerusalem's broken walls, we are not alarmed by our present vulnerability and departure from God.
The sad thing is that the next destination for a weak, vacillating, and confused nation is utter darkness. But I believe that even at this late hour we can have hope.
Believers need to seriously pray and petition the Lord to raise up leaders like Nehemiah, who will repent of their sin and the sin of our nation -- beginning with our pulpits, because this is where the problem began. Pastors have exchanged their highest calling for the lowest of worldly popularity and thus sold their birthright. As has been said, "As goes the pulpit, so goes the pew, and as goes the pew, so goes the nation."
Today, I call upon pastors to fall down on their knees with me in repentance of our own sins and the sins of our nation and trust that it is not too late for God to hear and answer from heaven.
A call to both repentence and conversion.
imo, the author assumes a fact no longer in evidence.
Not really, keep reading. The author acknowledges what you point out.
“Today, I call upon pastors to fall down on their knees with me in repentance of our own sins and the sins of our nation and trust that it is not too late for God to hear and answer from heaven.”
Here’s a better idea.
Participate in the damn political process!!
What do people think, that God is going to clean up our mess? Just sit back and pray, and watch 40 years of ineptitude get cleared up like that?
No wonder the left keeps winning. Our side is too timid, too lazy, and too willing to let it all go to crap with the expectation that heaven will open up and do the dirty work.
See my tag line.
Pastors have exchanged their ‘higher calling’, for things such as status in the local society, increasing the church coffers to pursue their own desires, placing everything of great value - under ‘their ministry’, so as to openly declare they ‘do not own it’, and finally, getting that piece of paper from the federal government with the characters “503c” on it - thereby giving the IRS a toehold to silence future dissident speech. They have made the pulpit a commercial entity. Quite a few have come to resemble the old feared French Cardinals, but in suits instead of clerical outfits.
We know who we are. We mostly live in the Red States. We need to leave the degenerates to their fate and not let them drag us down with them.
“Gay marriage” and “medical marijuana clinics” are coming to your Red State faster than you know. CNN just had a big program last night pushing for legalization of marijuana (which I’m sure was written by the big drug backers and investors like George Soros.)
Just what we don’t need - potheads 24-7, running our local hometown, state, country.
I’m afraid Christianity is falling big time. Add to that those who claim to be Christians yet dance with the devil.
I agree with that. This is the beginning of the end. We’re one financial crisis away from a total collapse, IMHO.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who 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 will heal their land.
In America - true.
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