Eternal King of kings and Lord of lords Jesus Christ.
Although the Lord will never forsake those who love and honor
His name, I do not have to remind anyone reading this post
that our country is in serious trouble.
ISAIAH 64
Oh, that You would rend the heavens and that You would come down,
that the mountains might quake and flow down at Your presence,
As when the fire kindles the brushwood and the fire causes the waters
to boil-to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the
nations may tremble at Your presence!
When You did terrible things which we did not expect, You came down;
the mountains quaked at Your presence.
For from of old no one has heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye
seen a God besides You, Who works and shows Himself active on
behalf of him who earnestly waits for Him.
You meet and spare him who joyfully works righteousness, uprightness
and justice, earnestly remembering You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry,
for we sinned; we have long continued in our sins, prolonging Your anger.
And shall we be saved?
For we have all become like one who is unclean, ceremonially, like a leper,
and all of our righteousness, our best deeds of rightness and justice is like
filthy rags or a polluted garment; we all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities like
the wind, take us away, far from God's favor, hurrying us toward destruction.
And no one calls on Your name and awakens and bestirs himself to take and
keep hold of You; for You have hidden Your face from us and have delivered us
into the consuming power of our iniquities.
Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter;
and we are all the work of Your hand.
Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, or seriously remember our iniquities forever.
Behold, consider, we beseech You, we are all Your people.
Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem is a desolation.
Our holy and our beautiful house, the temple, where our fathers praised You
is burned with fire and all our pleasant and desirable places are in ruins.
Considering these calamities, will You restrain Yourself, O Lord, and not
come to our aid? Will You keep silent and not command our deliverance,
but humble and afflict us exceedingly?
Corresponding New Testament verses:
The apostle Paul reiterates the warnings of the prophet Isaiah:
ROMANS 1:21-25
"Because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honor
and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. But instead they became futile
and godless in their thinking, with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and
stupid speculations, and their senseless minds were darkened.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, professing to be smart, they
made simpletons of themselves.
And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God
were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man,
and birds and beasts and reptiles.
Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their own hearts to sexual
impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
abandoning them to the degrading power of sin.
Because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and
served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever! Amen!
A great American and statesman once said: "Without God, there
is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without
God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only
what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of
the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot
long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under
God, then we will be a nation gone under."
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States of America
(August 23, 1984)
Despite our nation's many wrongs, my most fervent prayer is that God will
still have mercy on America, and that He will rise up righteous leadership,
in every field of endeavor-political, economics, education,- but most
importantly within the remnant Christian church.
Men and women who realize that their first duty in life is to honor Him.
That they stand accountable for the decisions they make for our nation.
That for every action, good or bad, there is a consequence.
That they will never compromise with evil, and they will set examples
of morally right living for the next generations of Americans,
to learn from and to emulate in their own lives.
In Jesus Holy Name I pray, Amen.
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