Posted on 09/15/2001 10:33:23 AM PDT by Medium Rare
By Jim Rarey
September 15, 2001
HAS GOD FORSAKEN THE UNITED STATES?
Has this nation, which has been so richly blessed by God with freedoms and bountiful resources, been abandoned by him? Is God no longer on our side? The answer is a resounding no! It is the opposite that is true. We, as a nation, have banished God from our public life and to a great extent from our personal lives.
God does not “take sides.” He is eternal and steadfast. His laws (rules) are well known and unchanging. The real question is are we on God’s side?
Anyone taking an honest and objective view of the current landscape in this country cannot say that we are “on God’s side.” We, as a population, have first ignored, then tolerated and finally embraced many of the things God has told us in scripture are an abomination to him.
The world has succumbed to the original lie told to Eve by Satan. In the Garden of Eden, Satan convinced Eve that she could disobey God and become like him, “knowing good and evil.” This might be the most misunderstood passage in scripture. It did not merely mean knowing the “difference” between good and evil, but have the right to substitute “man’s” standards of good and evil for God’s.
And that is exactly what we have done. The Ten Commandments are banned from public consideration as being unworthy of an absolute standard for humanity. Instead, “political correctness” has become the standard. And in social mores, this often means there are no standards at all. Just do your thing.
As a consequence, Americans have cravenly maintained silence as their government bombs and starves innocent civilians in the name of imposing “democracy.” Corporate profits take precedence over human rights and national security. Promises to “create jobs’ take precedence over individual property rights.
The “popular” culture glorifies everything that God detests. Families disintegrate under the idea that man can set the standards.
The problem is not political nor is the solution. We are in a spiritual war in which we are unarmed and for the most part unaware.
The pundits tell us that the cause of the tragic attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon is that others are jealous of our wealth and power. That America is good and they are evil. That we only need stay the course and our “goodness” will prevail.
Are wealth and power the symbols of “goodness.” I think not, at least in God’s eyes. We are told to take great pride in our wealth, power and (diminishing) freedoms. Yet the Bible tells us that “pride goeth before destruction and a haughty manner before a fall.” What is needed is humility, not pride.
God has made numerous promises to mankind. The following one is what we should be contemplating in these trying times.
"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 I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land."
II Chronicles 7:14
The author is a free lance writer based in Romulus, Michigan. He is a former newspaper editor and investigative reporter, a retired customs administrator and accountant, and a student of history and the U.S. Constitution.
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....how many times have we heard that?
We need to be individually ready...Has God forsaken us? Why?
So..God has forsaken us. Uh-huh. I guess that explains why China is still in business.
We had a clear strong warning just less than two years ago when a fully-loaded airliner leaving Kennedy airport in the early hours of October 31, 1999 had the cockpit taken over by an unscheduled pilot who crashed the plane into the sea screaming it was for the glory of Allah. President Clinton and his state department minions immediately assured Americans that it was not an act of terrorism. The final report said the pilot was depressed and suicidal - acting on his own.
Now, who was stupid enough to believe this liar and his gang and NOT take precautionary actions to prevent cockpit takeover by Islamic fundamentalist extremists?
answer: America.
I was disgusted. I sounded the warning on November 1 - knowing even then that it was a terrorist act. For the next two years I have been telling everyone that flight 990 was downed by terrorism and they got away with it and will do it again and again.... I have been told to put on my tin foil hat and watch out for black helicopters and that I was consumed with paranoia about Osama bin Laden and needed to get a life. Such is the defamation people who expose Clinton's lies were subject to.
Now we are told to be quiet and united - not to speak ill of anyone because we are all suffering.
I will not be quiet! WE have traitors in our midst and still working within the government at all levels!
FIRE all of the investigators who signed on to the report concluding that EgyptAir 990's fate was in the hands of a lone renegade pilot. These investigators have blood on their hands.
God may or may not have forsaken us. I don't know, and neither do you. That, to me, is all the more reason why we should not turn away from him.
And for this you think now that we should be reaping God's blessings?
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