What is wrong with America?
WHAT IS WRONG IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
What is wrong with Congress? What is wrong with the Senate?
What is wrong with the courts? What is wrong with the Jail system?
What is wrong with the schools? What is wrong with the churches?
What is wrong with the parents? What is wrong with the Children?
What is wrong with the whole world?
GOD HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN!
God spoke to Moses and told him to tell the people of Israel, Exodus 19:5-6 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. Moses did as God had told him to do.
And, the people of Israel responded, Exodus 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
When you read the King James Bible you will find that God spoke similar commands to the Israelites through other great men of the bible. The people of Israel responded in a similar fashion as unto Moses.
However, history tells us that the Israelites didn’t always do what was right in God’s eyes, so He had to give them a choice. Obey me and you will have peace, disobey me and you will have trouble. So, throughout the history of Israel when they obeyed God, they had peace, and when they disobeyed God they had trouble.
Asa was a good King and brought to Israel during his reign a revival. We are told in 2 Chronicles 14:2 “And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:” Asa was a good king because he was a man of prayer. It is worth sharing his prayer. 2 Chronicles 14:11 “And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.”
Something our great country has forgotten. We have forgotten how to pray and trust in God. We, in fact as great a nation as we are, have forgotten God. As a child in grade school, I along with all the children went to the Auditorium before we went to class. We prayed the Lord’s Prayer and pledged allegiance to our flag.
WHAT HAPPENED? In my eight decades on this earth, we went from praying to God and honoring our flag, to children not going to pray and give honor but rather going out to march in protests. Isaiah the prophet told us that “children will be our oppressors.” How could this happen? Because of one fact,
GOD IS MISSING!
He is missing in our schools, our homes, our government, and even in many of our churches. This is the Laodicea church age. It is the Church of the Civil Rights. What is wrong with America today? It is biblically illiterate. It is a nation proud of Woman’s Lib, Gay Lib, and anything that liberates them from obeying God.
I won’t go to all the prophets at this time to see what they were told by God to tell Israel, but I will give you what God told Jeremiah to tell them. Jeremiah 11:3-8 “And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. 7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
In America, what have we learned from history? Nothing!
The United States of America was founded on the principles of God, and God protected us from evil nations. Our God was and is the only true Living God, the Lord Jesus Christ. He gave his life for us on a cross at Calvary, so we could have peace with Him forever. All we had to do was believe, trust and obey HIM. There is a hymn titled “Trust and Obey.” I wonder how many Americans even know the words to it.
I am sad to admit that our great nation has turned its back on God. As I write this article the world is in flux. We are in a time of uncertainty, a time of rebellion. We are under a curfew right now because of all the rioting, and looting going on, due to a terrible tragedy. We are experiencing an unprecedented pandemic with no real answers.
However, if we look back at the history of Israel, we see when the people obeyed God, there was peace, and when they were disobedient to God, they had trouble, whether it was war or natural disasters, whatever the case may be, the root cause was and is SIN.
Someone said Wars and Disasters are God’s answer to SIN in this age. Hell is God’s answer to SIN in the future age.
In the Bible which it appears that not many people read and much less study, we are told in Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? And in the New Testament we are told by the Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 5:5-7 “Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
The saying was “We’ve Come a Long Way Baby.” Yes, over the last eight decades we’ve come a long way. However, rather than showing the world what a nation founded on the principles of God can do by prayer, and being obedient to the very God that created us, we’ve compromised and joined in with the world that is at enmity with God.
GOD HAVE MERCY ON US!