Monday, December 10, 2018
*SIGN OF THE TIMES: RECOGNIZING AMERICA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
Can we be thankful for the great people God has put amongst us, those who have carved and paved the way and worked to protect this grand and marvelous nation the Lord has established? Can we not recognize with gratitude people from the past like John Adams and his wife Abigail, like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, like Abraham Lincoln? Perhaps some of the more recent leaders will deserve to be in this list someday, but that is not yet clear. History is too close, the years too short to see clearly. Likely we may never get a chance for that perspective as the clock winds down on this age of human history and the Lord is soon to return to establish God’s Kingdom in physical presence on earth along with God’s will.
Here at the end of six thousand years of homo sapiens and the final days of the two thousand year run since Jesus Christ walked the earth, we have seen the rise and operation of a great nation created without doubt by God as his servants dedicated the soil to him when they came and worked hard in his service to establish a nation that was his. It never occurred to them there would be a need to protect the heart and conscience of that nation against spiritually evil forces so numerous they would splinter and divide and wear down the once grand land. This great experiment based on respect of the worth of individual people, protection of human rights, and above all an ongoing focus on God has run into all sorts of confusing behavior and sentiments these last days. And the Lord’s return on the appointed day remains unchanged and still on schedule.
This nation, the home of so many dramatic scientific and business innovations and discoveries, was the nation that stepped into World War I to hasten its conclusion and then in all reality saved the world from a horrific fate by leading the defeat of Nazi Germany and then Japan in World War II. Without America there would be no free world. And when the many Biblical prophecies of the reestablishment of the physical nation of Israel came to fruition in 1948, it was the support and protection of the US that gave and has given this tiny country a chance to grow and survive – no doubt always God’s plan. Even up to today.
And now we are on the precipice of the end of the age. How will the US fare in these last days and even in the time afterwards known as the millennium? Will it even be there? Has its primary course been played? Has it fulfilled its role in God’s grand plan?
We don’t know that yet. We just know this is the season of the Lord’s return. This is the time believers for centuries have longed for. And we are blessed to be here, to be living now. To see and experience it all.
The Lord gave us these words in his prayer long ago:
Our father,
Who art in Heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in Heaven.
Yes, God’s Kingdom come, God’s will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
It will.
Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!
(December 2018)
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