As our society seems to be going to “hell in a hand-basket,” do you ever wonder
where God is in all of this?
The economy sucks.
Our religious rights are being trimmed away.
Schools are focusing less on academics and more on creating an anti-God
worldview and the “morality” and social characteristics that they want.
Laws are being made which are having detrimental impacts on people, families,
businesses, and economics.
Morality and modesty are “old-fashioned” concepts. Flagrant sexuality is
rampant, and society even encourages it as being “open-minded, progressive, and
free from oppressive restraints.”
You can’t say “Merry Christmas” or “God bless you” anymore without someone
crying foul. (Oh yeah, well, I’m going to say it . . . “Merry Christmas
. . . Merry Christmas . . . Merry Christmas . . . God bless you .
. . God bless you . . . God bless you.”)
Lobbyists have done a great job making sure that they protect their interests
and the interests of big business and government, at the expense of the
people.
Lawsuits are shaping our country for the worse because no one can bear to be
offended or have someone raise their eyebrows at them.
[We need to stop whining, America! People are losing their heads in other
countries, and yet we have the audacity to go crying to the judge every time
someone says “God” or “Sorry, but my religious beliefs won’t let me do
that.” Instead of just tolerating it and moving on, people are being
taken to court simply because someone else was “offended.”
Political correctness is going to destroy us from the inside out, turning us
into a tightly-controlled country where the “thought police” control every move
we make, taking away all of our rights to peacefully live out beliefs that may
be different from the mainstream. You
can’t take away someone else’s right to live according to their beliefs without
also taking away your own.
Funny how those who cry “You’re
intolerant” seem to be the most intolerant because they are taking it to the
courts and demanding their way instead of just tolerating someone else’s views
and their rights to peacefully live out their faith. When children are told
they cannot mention “Jesus” in a school paper and when athletes are reprimanded
for bowing a knee in the end zone and when someone sues someone else simply for
saying “God bless you” when they sneezed, we have reached a new level of
ridiculousness and pathetic-ness.]
There is abortion on demand, broken homes and broken families, high levels of depression
and anxiety, a fear of disease, the fear of terrorist attacks, less and less
religious freedom, legal repercussions for living out your faith, more and more
indecency and immorality and just plain nonsense, a government and school
systems that focus less on academics and more on pushing their own brand of
godlessness, etc..
“But my children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were
not careful to keep my laws – although the man who obeys them will live by them
– and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on
them and spend my anger against them in the desert . . . I also gave them over
to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by; I let them
become defiled through their gifts – the sacrifice of every firstborn – that I
might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.” (Ezekiel 20:21, 25)
In those verses, God is talking about the Israelites and how they had rebelled
against God and gone their own way, pursuing idols and even sacrificing their
firstborns to the gods.
And in response, God allowed them to
be placed under rules and laws that they could not abide by. He gave them
over to over-bearing, harsh laws. And He let them become depraved through
their self-gratification, idol-worship, and child-sacrifice.
I’m sure any righteous person would
have been disgusted, disheartened, and felt helpless. But God allowed the
people to fall so far and He allowed bad laws to govern them so that their eyes
could be opened to how bad they and society had become . . . and so that they
would be horrified by it.
It is only when our eyes are opened to our depraved condition that we can see
ourselves for who we are . . . and how holy God is by comparison. It is
only when we see how far society falls when left to itself that we begin to
realize that we want and need God. We want the guidance He gives and the
truth He alone has. We want His Lordship in our lives because it is far
superior to any “god” man creates. We want to know that He will help us
through this life. We want the hope that this life is not all that there
is, and that the best it yet to come. It is only when we find ourselves
oppressed by harsh laws and unbearable conditions that we realize we cannot do
it on our own. That we are pathetic human beings with no hope in
ourselves. That we cry out to God because we need Him.
So where is God in all of this? In our depraved society and terrible
laws?
It might just be that God is handing us over to ourselves in order that we
might be horrified by what we are capable of . . . and we might again discover
a desire for Him. It may just be that He is allowing all of this so that
we become disgusted with ourselves and so that we realize that we want God, so
that we climb down off His throne and fall down at His feet in humility and a
desperate need for Him.
It’s time
for us to be horrified.
We are sacrificing basic decency and
self-respect to the god of Pleasure, on the altar of immediate
self-gratification.
We are sacrificing values, morals, decency,
and modesty to the god of Moral Relativism, on the altar of “I can do whatever
I want because there is no right or wrong.”
We are sacrificing freedom of
thought and religion to the god of Political Correctness, on the altar of
tolerance (a fake kind of tolerance that says you have to condone everything,
not just tolerate it).
We are sacrificing the stability of
our marriages and families to the god of Narcissism, on the altar of “It’s all
about me and my happiness.”
We are sacrificing the hearts and
minds of our children to the god of Mindless Immoral Entertainment, on the
altar of “Whatever you want, dear. It’s
all about your happiness.”
We are sacrificing unborn babies to
the god of Self, on the altar of convenience and “reproductive rights.”
It’s time to be
horrified. And to turn back to God.
2 Chronicles 7:14-15: “if my people, who are called by my name, will
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. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers
offered in this place.”
(reposted from https://myimpressionisticlife.blogspot.com)
(reposted from https://myimpressionisticlife.blogspot.com)
