I've been thinking a lot about America this past month of July as we
celebrated our independence and am wondering what God might say to us about our country now.
Might God say: “I made you free. I gave you fire, wind and
water – and all that you needed for survival. And more than that I gave you the
capacity to know me, live in joy, and celebrate life with loved ones. Your desire to worship me was repressed in Europe so I
established a country founded by men who knew My name and my power. They came
and shared My truth, guided and inspired. America the great nation soared.”
“Now you block me from your children’s minds and hearts. Schoolteachers
dare not speak of my mighty deeds for humanity. Memorials to me are smashed.”
“Your latest laws have taken what is natural and scoffed at
my creation, my plans for life. You flaunt sin and stifle holiness. You
criticize the rescuers I send and mock My anointed when they share My truth.”
“America the great crumbles before your eyes. It’s never too
late but as time passes it becomes difficult to rescue your moral
traditions. I watch as you step back from conflict and remain silent lest
you annoy your friends or isolate yourself. Your tolerance of evil reeks. Look around!"
I have looked and listened. Is
this the world we want? The new August 2015 Family Circle has a feature article
about a seven-year-old girl who said at age two she’d rather be a boy so her
parents renamed her as a him and insist she be treated like a boy in school. How
many young girls were tomboys as children?" (I was a tomboy. I’m so glad it never occurred
to my parents to transgender my identity or I would have missed the joys of heterosexual marriage and motherhood.)
Might God say “This
is not the traditional family life I designed. My heart breaks. Also some
people exalt not working and doing nothing – failing to use the giftedness I placed
within them. Angry, empty people abound – grumblers who take without giving to
others.”
I wonder. Are these things God might say to us today?
Perhaps He’d conclude with: “Depend on me, respect my commandments and honor
one another, descry the spiritual stereotypes. I am the living, loving God on
whom the institutions of this greatest of nations were founded. If you choose to fall you have the freedom to do so. The
choice is yours…America the free or..."
What will we make of America? Will it be the once-greatest-nation upon the face of the earth or…?
What do you think God might say to you? What might God have us do?
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