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There’s plenty of bad news these days if you allow it to dwell in your mind: The unfounded impeachment proceedings in Washington; the socialists hoping to recapture the White House again, as well as the U.S. Senate, through these impeachment proceedings. In my opinion, here in Kentucky, we’ve just replaced with a socialist, the best Governor we’ve had in my lifetime. Also, in that same election, many of our small towns fell to the liquor industry.
All of this reveals how weak the church is in our state and nation. It reveals how many, many church leaders are either ignorant of what our Founders created, or, they lack the courage to speak the truth about it to God’s people. The very system our Founding Fathers enacted, which gave the greatest amount of liberty to the greatest number of people ever, is now being trashed by the socialists who control the media and the teachers unions.
But, America has seen threatening times before. In the War for Independence, by September of 1777 the American cause looked hopeless. The American army had won few battles. Our Congress was forced to flee Philadelphia. After dejected statements by some in the besieged Congress, Samuel Adams, the man who had fought the longest for this Revolution, rose and said some of the most inspiring words I’ve ever read. He stated,
“Gentlemen, your spirits appear oppressed with the weight of the public calamities. Your sadness…reveals your disquietude. A patriot may grieve at the distress of his country. But he will never despair of the commonwealth…We have proclaimed to the world our determination ‘to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.’ If we despond…the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more…Our losses, though great, can be retrieved. We have been reduced to distress, [but] the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up. Let us still rely…on Him Who is mighty to save. Good tidings will soon arrive. We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection.” (emphasis added)
Indeed, Adams was right. Just a month later, by two miracles, our forces were able to capture the British-held fort of Saratoga in New York. This may well have been the turning point of the War. It so lifted the American spirits (as well as greatly adding to our arsenal) that the National government called for a special “Day of Thanksgiving to God…through the merits of Jesus Christ.”
Yes, we are in a desperate time in America. But God is still God! He says in His Word,
“Trust ye in the Lord forever; for in the Lord Jehovah is the rock of ages.”
And again, “Thou wilt keep him in peace, peace, whose imagination is stayed on thee…” (Isaiah 26:4 and 3; the literal Hebrew reading)
Let us resolve in our hearts that we will pray for our national leaders; and that we will fight these socialists, who want to take away the liberty of our children to hear the purpose of God for them through Christ. Let us commit to send our letters, and our phone calls to our government servants and insist that they do what the Bible teaches concerning the murder of children in the womb, sodomy, and religious liberty. Let us repent for electing leaders who are so against God and His Word. Then we can trust His Word that says,
“He who covers his sin shall not prosper; but whoever confesses and forsakes it shall have mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13)
Will you repent?
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you. I’m Don Pinson; this has been Think About It.