One Nation Under God
June 11, 2009 by Standing on Truth
Filed under Culture
The Pledge of Allegiance. . .the Declaration of Independence. . .our Founding Fathers. . .God Bless America
These documents, people, and songs are a part of America’s history and heritage. They have been the foundation of this country for centuries. . .and what’s more, God has been the foundation of this part of history. There are some out there today that want to deny that fact, and although it is undeniable that God has been a large part of our past as a nation, there is a strong possibility that He will not be our nation’s future. Are we sure we want that? And are we ready for the fight that could ensue as well as the ramifications of denying God? Our great country will go to “hell in a hand basket”.
The Lord says in Isaiah 65:1, “I’ve made myself available to those who haven’t bothered to ask. I’m here, ready to be found by those who haven’t bothered to look. I kept saying, ‘I’m here, I’m right here’ to a nation that ignored me. I reached out day after day to a people who turned their backs on me, people who make wrong turns, who insist on doing things their own way. They get on my nerves, are rude to my face day after day, make up their own kitchen religion, a potluck religious stew. They spend the night in tombs to get messages from the dead, eat forbidden foods and drink a witch’s brew of potions and charms. They say, ‘Keep your distance. Don’t touch me. I’m holier than thou.’”
Our self-centered culture, obsessed with New Age and Humanism, is stiff-arming God, essentially saying, “I don’t need God. I rely on myself and myself alone. I’m holy enough.”
Jeremiah 7:27 “Tell them, ‘You are the nation that wouldn’t obey God, that refused all discipline. Truth has disappeared. There’s not a trace of it left in your mouths.”
Truth is, in fact, disappearing. It still exists, as surely as God exists, but it is being denied, refused, and squelched in society today. Obedience and discipline are fading virtues as well.
Psalm 59:8 “But you, God, break out laughing; you treat the godless nations like jokes.”
Do we really want Almighty God laughing at us and treating us like jokes?! Yet we continue to desire godlessness.
Galatians 6:7 “Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”
We will sow what we reap. . .individually and as a nation. That is enough to scare me.
Psalm 33:12 “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”
Oh, how I long for the United States of America to be a nation whose focus is again on God our Lord! How I long for a revival so powerful that God and God alone will be praised!
“If we ever forget that we’re One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” Ronald Reagan
How true, and my fear is that we are headed there. . .and headed there fast under President Obama’s leadership, a liberal Congress, activist judges, and corrupt local governments.
