There is a whole lot of enemy activity going on right now.
There is a movement that is intent on removing all vestiges of God from the public square. Displays of commandments, the phrases mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance and on our currency, any public declaration of the name Jesus; all these are taboo, dangerous, and have to be gotten rid of. Unless of course you are blaspheming or ridiculing God or Jesus. Then you might become a celebrity.
The radical atheist movement is in league with the enemy. They might not know it and logically could not if they are the atheists they claim to be. I have a little experience as an atheist and this movement confuses me. When I did not believe in God, I was not scared or threatened by Him or any of these displays. You could go to church, pray, give away your money to the church or to the makers of all of these t-shirts, plaques, crosses, etc., and it did not bother me one bit. It actually amused me, unless my saved wife was using our money.
But these neo-atheists don’t portray an assurance of their conviction. They, instead portray the opposite. They seem to be scared of something they supposedly do not believe in.
There is a whole lot of enemy activity going on right now.
We have an election coming up and are faced with the fact that there are no qualified, trustworthy, competent, CHRISTLIKE, electable candidates to choose from for the highest office in our nation. As this nations government gets bigger and bigger, the broad way to hell seems to be expanding also.
The war that probably never should have happened goes on and on and the only way to end it will seriously dampen every other nations opinion of us as a world power. In the meantime, people die.
There is a whole lot of enemy activity going on right now.
There is not a lot of good news coming from anywhere. The economy seems to be heading in a direction that is simply scary. There are people losing jobs and people with little work. Gas is ridiculously high and impacting everything’s pricing. Some are losing their homes. Some are losing their stuff. We are in an economy that is affecting most people in some way.
There is no clear way to fix the problems. So we are faced with many lifestyle adjustments.
There is a whole lot of enemy activity going on right now.
On a personal level, I have friends and family that are being devastated by attacks that seem to be intensifying. Things such as marital discord, child rebellion and hostility, addictions in loved ones, antagonistic in-laws, and many other cacoetheses’ are affecting many families that I know personally.
But we trust God. Or do we? Are our actions and reactions to these attacks displaying this trust?
As far as the atheist movement goes, I take the same attitude that I did as an atheist. I don’t care. Because I do trust God. I do not need a plaque to declare to me the ten commandments. In fact, I don’t even have to memorize them. Jesus taught and the Holy Spirit impressed on me that they are all summed up in the two. The two are, to love God and love everyone else, even my enemies.
I don’t need my money to remind me that I trust God. I am not even sure as a card carrying patriot of the Kingdom of God that I should even recite the pledge of allegiance. I ask the same thing of all those Christians that rally behind a movement to legislate morality and have this worldly government recognize my God, what are you afraid of?
Just look at the picture I used in this post. It seems that almost every notion of trusting God in our culture has to be pictured as conjoined with this nation. But I would dare say there are more outside this nation that truly do trust Him than here.
As far as the election goes, I think I will let these words from the comment section of Cerulean Sanctum, by Dan Edelen say it for me.
“Our responsibility in voting is to represent the Kingdom of God. We do not compromise. We do not support candidates who make concessions to evil. That may mean that we must vote for someone outside the two major parties. It may mean that we write in a God-fearing candidate. It may mean that we vote for no one in a particular race if a godly candidate has not been revealed to us by the Lord. Our focus is not in ensuring we vote for the winning side or that we cast our vote against someone wicked, but that we vote in a way that honors the Lord and shows us to understand that Christ has no fellowship with Belial.”
He says what I feel much better than I could.
As far as the economy goes, there is not much to say except, trust God. And heed these words of our Lord.
Mat 6:19-26 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. “The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. “But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?
As for my friends and family that are close, I encourage you to embrace this season of trial and tribulation for what it is. An attack of the enemy that has become so severe in your lives because of the attention you are getting from them. You must be doing the work of the Lord to be hit with such an onslaught.
Continue in prayer and love, for these are the weapons that make us victorious. And know that I am praying with and for you.
So again I ask us all, In God We Trust?
I really hope so.
Love you all
Tags: Atheism, Election, Hope, Politics, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare, Trust, War
for about the fifteenth time.
Here we are again. I want to say thank you once again for all of the insightful comments last week about the Starbucks issue. While important, it was also a little less intense than some of what I seem to put forth. And don’t forget, your comments are not only appreciated but desired on all posts.
