ELECTION CORRECTION – – – SOLUTION OR DREAM?

October 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

It is possible for an election to provide a course correction for a nation.  (Lincoln and Reagan come to mind.)

Will this election bring such a correction for America?  I don’t know.

Many people wonder if there is a solution—or is “dream” with a big question mark more realistic.

Does history have to repeat itself, and we go down?  Are there any recorded exceptions?

I find only one category, where nations come back from the brink.  And the ingredient—spiritual awakening, with repentance.

 

Nineveh was 40 days and counting, from being toast-ed, by God.  He could do it.  He said He would.  His prophet Jonah said He would.  But He didn’t—they all repented, starting with the king.  Hmmm.

 

+++ America had a profound Great Awakening, and a few decades later was saved from destruction under British tyranny.

+++ America had a profound Great Awakening, and a few decades later was set free from the scourge of slavery.

+++ America had a profound Great Awakening, and a few decades later was used by God to save the world from Germany, Italy, and Japan.

 

Israel is the classic in repeat performance—

—they strayed from God

—they got in trouble, from God

—they repented before God

—they cried to God

—they were pulled from the brink by God

—they enjoyed sweet blessings of God

 

The question for the United States is this:  How many American Christians are ready to repent of sin, right now?

 

Abraham bargained with God to save Sodom if there were 50 righteous there.  God said okay.  Abraham said 40.  God said okay.  Abraham said 30.  God said okay.  Abraham said 20.  God said okay.  Abraham said, “God, please don’t be angry with me.  Will you save Sodom (where my nephew and family live) if you find 10 righteous there.  GOD SAID OKAY.

The next day Abraham saw the mushroom cloud in the distance, where Sodom used to be.

 

God’s people have to “. . . turn from our wicked ways . . .”

God said that.  And His Word is the last Word.

Filed Under: Faith Based, Political---Cultural

PERSONAL

October 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

“We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

This is on my brother’s tombstone.  He was a total invalid for nearly four decades, after polio with very high fever for a week when he was six months old.

My parents took care of him in our home all those years.  (no institution could take him, even if that were a consideration)  Someone always stayed home to be with him.

This has a major impact on my life, even to this day.  But the above Bible verse affects me the most.

Several months ago at church in the park, I saw a new understanding of this verse.  I had always focused on the “much tribulation,” because of what my folks had to go through.  Then I realized what the verse is really all about—

“We must enter the kingdom of heaven.”  That’s it.  That is what matters, for all of us.

Heaven is where we belong.  Here on earth we’re just passing through.  We will have trouble here.  This world is rough because we don’t belong here permanently.

“This world is not my home;

.     I’m just a passin’ through.

My treasures are laid up

.     Somewhere beyond the blue.

The angels beckon me

.     From heaven’s open door;

And I won’t feel at home

.     In this world anymore.”

Filed Under: Faith Based, Family, Inspirational