Thursday, February 28, 2008

Nation's Trust in God? or Trust in our president?

The 'feel' of the political season is one of weariness in listening to all the sounds of a nation in decision.

The reality of this season is that we will choose, by our decisions, whether our trust for our future is in God or in our president.

It cannot be that we choose a president who does not have a viable personal dependency upon God or we will be of all nations, most miserable.

Could it be that the only reason we have not incurred the wrath of God and total loss of His favor is because of the remnant in our nation -- the now minority -- who truly believe (trust in) God, THE LORD -- Jehovah of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is God of our fathers?

America's founding fathers came to this land, motivated to bringing their worship of God to a new place of freedom to serve Him with reverential awe and healthy fear. They risked their lives for this freedom from the oppressive rule of government.

Established upon the foundation of the Word of God, our nation has continued with the core of its very being a continuum of such faith and bold confidence in Almighty God.

We have had two basic realities which have given God cause for withholding judgment against our nation's open defiance of His laws:

1) We have had a response to the nations of the planet in bringing the Good News of God's lavish love for all mankind as a motivating reality for our national exportation of the message and the accompanying commodities coming from our bountiful provision from God's hand.

2) We have held to a responsibility to the land of Israel as the place of God's Covenant people and His promise that the nation which blesses Israel will be blessed. The nation who curses or harms Israel will be cursed. God's favor on a nation is in direct relation to the relationship with the land of Israel and its treatment of God's chosen people, the Jews.

If, indeed, we are clearly to abandon these two things at the core of our national being, we are sure to get what we have coming. History records the consequences of such self-determination as a people.

Through our choice of laws which we have voted in as the 'law of the land' we prove our intent to either honor or defy God.

Our national future is not up for sale by any action on the part of real estate brokers or marketing magistrates. Our national future is being bartered away each day by the choices the average citizens are making every day.

Our future is in our hands regardless of the political canditate in the highest office of the land. Yet, we are bound by our choice in the November elections and we will live with and die with our choice which will effect our children and grandchildren in years to come.

We better choose well the righteousness which God requires of a nation. Jesus Himself ordered His followers to discipline the nation/s to obey His commands. Love for Christ is all wrapped up in our ability to intentionally choose to obey Christ's commands. The essence of those commands are found in the Ten Commandments God gave the Sons of Israel and the company of decendents in the wilderness at Sinai.

God, who does not change in His nature and plan for the nations to be ruled by His Divine Will, watches to see our choices for one to serve Him in the highest office of our land. If there is a question about the political preparedness in the candidate -- look to see if there is regard for God above all else. Is there a healthy fear of God in the person's being. . . one that stands the scrutiny of the Word of God?

In God alone we trust. Our faith in all others will not sustain us. God alone has power to preserve the core of our nation -- those who are committed to give their lives in order that the nations of the earth come to know the true and living God -- the One and Only God, Jehovah God of Israel, who sent His Son into the world that the world, through Him, be saved from the wrath to come.

Our future as a nation is at stake here. Our future residency is determined by our personal response to God Himself.

In God alone I trust. May He grant us a president He would be pleased with . . . not what our sins deserve.

May we be spared the wrath to come in these last days before the coming of the Lord . . .

The choice is up to you!

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