If My People…
I have a sense, and I know I am not the only one, that our country is in deep trouble. Something has changed and shifted. I believe we as a nation have crossed a line. What that line is, many cannot precisely tell, but we sense in our spirits or our intuition that something fundamental has changed.
Perhaps all the reasons I could list are but symptoms of a deeper disease, rather than the lines themselves. The past several years have been surreal to say the least, and I do not think that the people in our country even realize the trauma the entire world suffered as a result of the pandemic, whatever it was.
I think we are seeing national, even global PTSD. The wounds go deep and the devastation is real, be it in deception, the loss of life, the loss of rights, the loss of wealth, and the loss of basic human dignity as our elderly died alone, or the only human contact they had was with vinyl gloves, and the only faces they saw were shielded eyes and smiles covered with doubled masked faces. I cannot even imagine the trauma that our children suffered going to school and struggling to breathe all day through a mask.
The Churches were closed and the worship of God was silenced, and that, I believe, was the greatest tragedy of all.
The sense of doom still lingers in the air, and we all are on edge because we know that it all can return in the blink of an eye. We now know that the government and the Karens will do what ever it takes, and those who question the narrative can and will be silenced, censored, and ridiculed.
The truth is that our country is under the judgment of God. Though the world denies His existence, and His sovereignty over all the world, that does not change the reality of His judgment. In fact, it confirms it. As God withdraws His blessing on our nation, the restraint of evil is lessened. His judgment is, and always been, to give us what we want, which is autonomy from His Law. We have, indeed, gotten what we want.
Traditional Christianity is not going to cut it anymore. Gone are the days of comfortable churchgoing. As pastors continue building their enterprises and ignore the fact that we as a nation need to get on our faces before God and repent and plead for Him to spare us from what can happen at the drop of a hat or a cough in public.
Our country is at a crossroads, a crisis. So is the Church. And heaven is watching to see what we will do about it. Will we continue on as before? Or will the people of God who are called by His name step up and kneel down in humble adoration and humility and truly turn from our wicked ways with true repentance before Him?
God only knows.
