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Most patriotic and Christian Americans are stunned at what our
leaders, both elected and appointed, are intentionally doing to
this country. These are primarily godless people who loathe
capitalism even though it is the only system that works in any
country on the planet. So, much of America watches as the Left
forces socialism (or Marxism) on us, destroys our economy, and
couldn't care less what the American people think. They have no
shame and virtually boast about their corruption. It seems to be a
badge of honor.
But such behavior is not just a Democrat or
Republican issue. The depravity of human beings is
cross-denominational, cross-cultural, and affects every human
being. Our very nature is fallen and those we esteem most
highly can succumb to anything as a result. Corruption, greed, and
selfishness are equal-opportunity character flaws.
But the "flaws" in America's leaders are, for some reason, "on
display" before the entire world now. Of course they don't compare
to a Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or the mullahs of several violent
nations, or the leaders who throw Christians into the gulags of
North Korea. Those men are absolute evil.
Yet
something is seriously wrong with some of America's people in high
places. They have shut God out of everything. They mock and
scorn Him. They laugh at righteous values.
America was built on the premise that our
government derives it legitimacy from the "consent of the
governed," but I guess that is now history. Many of
America's leaders now want a secular humanist socialist machine
running our nation with an agenda so corrupt it is
staggering. For many, their god is government and others
consider themselves a god. Their conscience is seared. Their heart
has grown ice cold.
I believe God is allowing this to happen as a
way of showing humanity that it needs a heart transplant. It
has now been proven true -- although history has reminded us for
centuries -- that the heart is deceitful and
desperately wicked. Today mankind does what is right in his own
eyes. The Bible is not the standard. We can see how man is
born a selfish sinner who must first be taught right from wrong.
But God, because of His mercy, still reaches down and touches many.
He transforms the lives of the most wretched every
day!
Much of mankind is parading around like selfish fools. This is
outlined in the Bible just as all else that is happening in our
world is scripted in the Bible. Today's haughty and proud seem to
be outlined in Romans 1:28-32: And just as they did not see fit
to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved
mind, to do things which are not proper, being filled with all
unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice, full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God,
insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to
parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving,
unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those
who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the
same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice
them.
I guess
that covers just about every negative character trait known to man!
God seems to be shining a light on these people so they stand out
in today's world as an exaggeration. But their character flaws are
not exaggerations! Their characters are in need of a heart
transplant. They need a Savior who promises to rescue them out of
their selfish, greedy pit.
We all
want to "save America." But too often the interpretation of "saving America"
is turning more blue states into red states! Many don't
understand that changing America's political parties is not enough
to turn the nasty tide.
People are missing the root of the
problem. Even if political conservatives win every election in 2010
and 2012, without a "heart change," our country will not recover.
God is looking for renewed hearts and not renewed ballot boxes
-- which is not a put-down of our civic duty to vote and support
our Constitution. God established government, but He also made it
clear that man seldom carries it out properly. He will
when He rules from Jerusalem.
Two hundred years ago, philosopher Edmund Burke said -- and I
paraphrase -- all that is necessary for evil to prosper is for good
people to do nothing. Do what you can to turn the political tide,
but remember that transforming the hearts of men is what is
needed first.
If God
was gracious enough to save you, He can reach the hearts of the
most pompous politicians who are scheming evil plans for America
behind closed doors and in dark, smoke-filled rooms. God can melt
the hardest heart.
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