Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Worst Americans


Isaiah 57-59

“Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell…” I recently heard this old Meryl Haggard song, posted it on the Internet and made some quip about disco and me.  This morning’s reading reminded me of it.

Let’s be straight up.  America is going to hell in a hand basket.  It’s not the gay’s fault, or the abortionist.  It’s not Hollywood’s, guns, television, or music’s fault.  It’s not President Obama’s, President Bush’s, the Democrats, the Republicans or the Independents fault. 

It is my fault!!!  It is the church’s fault!!!  We have stopped being who these verses say we have stopped being and we have become what these verses say we have become. 

Don’t say to me that this was written to the Israelites and therefore doesn’t apply to us.  That’s wrong!!!  It does!!!

And let’s be honest again.  President Obama, or Governor Romney will not help our problem or our country.  The democrats won’t, the republicans won’t and all the self-help in the world won’t.

AND IT WILL NOT HELP FOR US TO SAY WE ARE RIGHTEOUS.  SEARCH YOUR HEART AND SEE IF YOU ARE.  ONLY GOD CAN SEARCH YOUR HEART AND MAKE THAT DECLARATION.

And don’t try and separate out America from Christians.  God instituted them both, the first to offer structure, safety and security and the second to be the means that offers structure, safety and security. 

I am mad as hadies and can’t take it anymore.  I know that an emotional blog is so much fodder for the technical gray noise of our background.

But here’s the truth, many Christians, of which I am the worse, have each turned to his own way and so compromised the gospel that is Christ in us, that we no longer live under the umbrella of God’s Almighty protection nor does our country.  In that, we are in reality…

the worst Americans.

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