I visited a blog of a girl I went to high school with and cringed at her posts for Obama. I’m not talking about the fact that she supports him (as I’ve supported specific political decisions and candidates in the past like Ron Paul and the marriage amendment in North Dakota a couple years ago). What bothered me was her statement on election night – “I am excited to see what the next four years will bring. It won’t be easy, I’m sure, but now there is HOPE.” [capitals hers] What bothers me about that is people are constantly putting their hope in politicians, their homes, or money. We’ve all seen in recent months and years that to do just that is a foolish thing to do—our hope should be in Christ Jesus.
She raved over the fact that all the states she’s ever lived in carried Obama for electoral votes last week, and even has a post about how people need to join with the others in California to protest the passage of Proposition 8 (which happens to define marriage as being between 1 man and 1 woman). To quote her, she says, “Be a marriage ninja and join people across the country this Saturday to protest the passing of Prop 8 in Cal…”
Interestingly enough I saw a bumper sticker on the back of a car a couple months ago for the local Christian radio station in the Fargo area. However, there were about 20 other bumper stickers on the same car that were pro-gay propaganda—one of which said, “Love the heterosexual, hate the sin” as if to say that people that believe in the sanctity of marriage are the ones who are wrong in thinking so. I admit it was probably meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but no matter what it’s meant to symbolize, it was very inappropriate. This same care also had lots of Equality stickers on it which is just a blue sticker with a yellow equals symbol. The logo of a national equality organization that is pro-gay. I’m all for equality, but under the rules God has laid out for us. Anything but the rules God lays out for us is not equality at all.
I also read yesterday about a church in Lansing, Michigan that was barraged by protesters during the worship service with people chanting, “Jesus was gay,” and other inappropriate messages and demonstrations at the pulpit and throughout the congregation. Wonderfully enough, after all of the protestors departed (apparently all running out of the church and hopping in their cars before the police arrived), the pastor led the church in prayer not for revenge or justice, but that each and every one of those people would find a saving relationship with Christ. How cool is that?!
I also read today that many buses in Washington, DC, starting next week, will have an ad campaign on the side proclaiming, “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake.” The American Humanist Association unveiled the $40,000 ad campaign yesterday, set to run through the holidays. I also read a couple weeks ago that the UK’s version of this association is doing something similar on buses in London (and perhaps all over big cities in the UK).
Finally, new news today is that in the wake of fallout from Proposition 8 in California, a judge paved the way today for “gay marriage” to be legal immediately in the state of Connecticut. People are already heading to City Hall in New Haven to get licenses and get married.
All I can say is that I’m beginning to understand why so much of this is happening in the US. God is turning the US over to its own selfish desires because we’ve turned out backs on God time and time again. He promised this would happen in His Word!
We’ve kicked Him out of our schools, but invited in evolution, safe sex campaigns and pushy high self-esteem teaching. The result? Children who are out having sex, teenage mothers, continued turning away from Christ in the teaching of evolution’s propaganda message, and kids that have no respect for authority because they’re taught that they should make their own decisions that they can’t hurt anybody if they’re only doing something to their own lives.
We’ve kicked Him out of our government and courts. The result? We have a government that shuns public servants who bow their knees to Christ and make them look illogical and ignorant. We have a society that forces judges to remove the 10 Commandments from their buildings and determine right from wrong based on legislation and opinion, and not God’s standards which have stood the test of time.
We’ve kicked Him out of our churches in fact in many cases, inviting in agendas that feed the poor and heal the sick, but don’t do anything that impacts a person’s eternity. We have churches that believe in cultist practices like the Eucharist and refuse to discuss prophecy and hell—interestingly enough those are the churches that are packed with thousands every Sunday—Bill Hybels’ Willow Creek Church, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, and Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church.
God is crying out to us to return to Him, America just refuses to see it. Change is certainly coming to America, I’m just not sure it’s the change anyone really wants.
