posted by Writer on Sep 22
The headline on the Fox News website read: ‘Government shutdown puts security at risk”. (1) Don’t buy it.
We’re at risk because of the policies being promoted by President Obama, and like Ahab, when things don’t go his way he blames everyone but himself. Too bad we don’t have a guy like Elijah around to throw it back at him (1 Kings 18:17-18).
However, we can’t blame everything on Obama. John Adams said that our Constitution was ‘made ONLY for a moral and relgious people’. George
Washington delivered his Farewell Address on September 19, 1796 laying out what the nation must do in order to remain successful and secure; “Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
The calamaties we experience can be traced back to our current spiritual condition, which at the moment stinks.
The remedy is found in the ancient words of Jeremiah: “For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever, Behold you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail” (Jeremiah 7:5-8).
The answer doesn’t lie with a political party or how strong we are economically or militarily, but what Christians do. “If my people” is how the verse goes.
There’s a target on our back. Don’t think so? We’ll then read on, because there’s a limit to what God will put up with (Jeremiah 7:16). Some assert that sin can set in so deep within a society that God, as He does with people, will give a nation over to the things that ultimately lead to their destruction. Read Jeremiah’s words again.
While you’re at it, take a good look at Kenyan Mall attack because that’s a dress rehersal for what’s coming your way, and the majority of you reading this don’t have the stomach for a fight like this.
(1) foxnews.com 09-21-2013
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