The Blessings of Obeying

Where is this country headed? That question has been on my mind and heart a great deal lately. I see the center of our society falling further away from the biblical base it was established upon. The only religious reference I hear today is one of new age and self-deification. God no longer can be mentioned in the public school systems across the country without hearing from the representatived of the ACLU. One yelling voice in the 1960's had prayer taken from our children in school. Only a few voices have trumpeted the separation of church and state issue, which by the way was never said my Thomas Jefferson in a policy way. The squeaky wheel seems to get the grease in this country today rather than the majority that is supposed to rule in our nation. All of this is just a symptom of a great problem. Immorality is in the rule in this country and its evidences are everywhere. Its in our middle schools. They are the most sexually active group in our society today. The push of society is to not marry, but to live together so that there is an easy way out if one is not satisfied. Profanity dominates the vocabularities of our business world, even in our women and unfortunately in our young girls in high school and college. Respect for each other is no longer the ruling attitude. Rebellion now is seen in every situation of our society, even in the Church.

What this civilization needs is to go back to the principles that have made nations great from the beginning of time. The Laws of God must be re-instituted into the societies. My greatest concern is in the United States of America. Thousands of people fought and died in the formation of this great country that we have the privilege to live in today. But freedom breeds apathy and apathy is the recipe for slavery and the loss of the freedoms we have. When the people become apathic and turn over the administration of our lives to the central government of our country, we will lose our freedoms. But this too is still a symptom.

The Father, in His wisdom, centuries ago set in motion the principle of sacrificing our own wants and desires to do His will so that we could be free. It is faith that keeps us on the right track. When God knows that He can count on us to do His will, He will shower every blessing of the Word of God on us. My example is the patriarch, Abraham. God saw the faith of Abraham and loved him because of it. He even gave him a son when he and his wife Sarah were well beyond the years of bearing children. The reason that was made possible was because of the faith that Abraham had demonstrated for 25 years. At age 100 God gave Abraham his son, Isaac. Some years later when Isaac was a man of accountable age, God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son to prove his faith and commitment to God's word to him.

If you have ever attended a church in your past, you know this story and its outcome. God spoke to Abraham just as he was about to kill his son and told him not to do it. Furthermore, God provided a ram for the sacrifice, so that Abraham could still offer a sacrifice upon the altar that he and his son had build. The moral here is that God requires us to be willing to sacrifice everything we have in order to prove our allegiance and faith to Him and His Word. It is in obedience that we find the blessings of the Father. It is written in the Bible that we can never regain through sacrifice what we lost by disobedience. If we are obedient we will never have to sacrifice. You see, that was done once and for all by Jesus Christ when He died. In the Old Testament, Isaac was a type of Jesus Christ. He was willing to have his father, Abraham, sacrifice him in order to be obedient to the word of God. Isaac is also a type of each of us. We should be dying for the sins we have committed, but God has provided a willing sacrifice for us through Jesus Christ, so that we don't have to die in sin and be separated from God and His goodness for eternity. All it takes is obedience to the call to repentance from our sinful lifestyles and a willingness to turn our lives over to the Father to live out his will in our lives in order to receive His blessings.

If you really want to see the greatness return to this country, then its time to come before the altar of God and repent of our ungodliness and immoral lifestyles and ask the Father to forgive us for trying to run our lives without Him, and turn our lives over to Him and His wisdom and ask Him to show us what we need to do in America to once again be respected in the world. Its time to return to a Judeo-Christian ethic in this country that throws off apathy and becomes proactive in society once again and not let a few very small interest groups run this country.

Christians, you can no longer sit on the sidelines and let someone else do it for you. That is what we have done and you can see what our country has become; Godless and lifeless. Now other countries hold the reins of our economy. We have government officials apologizing for our country and our desire to protect our way of life. How long will we sit on the sidelines and allow our neighbors to be enslaved by Satan and his society. How long will we allow our freedoms to slowly bleed out leaving us under the thumb-hold of an entitlement government mentality that wants to take away our rights that men and women have died for so that we can live a life of freedom from oppression. It really comes down to OBEDIENCE. Are you willing to be obedience to the Word of God and His laws? Only you can make that decision. I recommend that you do it today. Don't wait any longer.