A nation founded on dangerous, unbalanced bits and pieces of the principles of Jesus Christ, finds herself in a spiraling spin at the realization that the cornerstone of her strength was never the full, scriptural cornerstone of the Gospel. The portrait of pilfering pilgrims tattooed on previously claimed property marks the expanses of her covetousness, shadowed by mighty barriers around her hoarded spoils. A skewed representation of a sacred doctrine, repeatedly referenced as founding principles by a nation that gorges herself on the loss and misfortune of the ignorant. She slowly unravels as her underlying intent overlays her mask of mock generosity. Fooling herself into believing that the brand of hatred wrapped in imitation righteousness was crafty enough to conceal the utter fear she has of practicing the faith she claims to be the core of her strength. Claiming that by declaring her position “under God”, she would be glorified after falsifying her authority in the name of Jesus, all-the-while abandoning the principles she pretends only apply to the victims of her upside down justice. A claim that caused her to stake out boundaries of continuous separation and elitist cultural domination and prejudicial personhood devaluation. Out of a fear that giving is losing and that humility is the equivalent of weakness; she orchestrated her own success story, stamped it with a counterfeit seal of righteousness and promptly withheld the virtues for herself. Profiting on loss, she has manufactured complicated systems to camouflage loss potential in order to entice the unsuspecting to sponsor her obsession for gain. Then brandishing God’s promises as a weapon, she shields her own blindspots with self-indulgence and unapologetic justifications. Claiming rights to the top of a mountain she explored for the broad expanses of grace, she ordained herself gatekeeper, highjacked the banner of righteousness and twisted the message of the Gospel to suit her own greedy self validation. She has reduced her brand of Christianity to a label she uses as a shield and has managed to sever the lifeline between the church and the Christ. She has raised her children on self preservation, guttural impulses and perversions; subjected them to idolatry as a means of babysitting; their hearts unnaturally driven to fill the void left by the absence of Christ with short attention-limiting bursts of destructive pleasures; soon to become norms and traditions. Extracting pearls of biblical wisdom, she has been cutting and pasting and repackaging them in the slanted words of envious contradiction. She has become the author of confusion, hypocrisy and turmoil. The broad brush of her misrepresentation supporting the fables of the hateful, the misinterpretations of the doubtful and the nervous miscalculations of the fearful. She is a righteous experiment operating on a stagnant hypothesis, declaring her own success based on her reflection in a magnifying mirror. She is an incomplete theory, assumed perfected. The mightiest of all nations has elevated herself into the judgment seat only to expose herself to the bullseye of God’s judgment.
And now she prays for God to redirect the consequences of her stubborn refusal to yield. With her right hand on the Gospel of Truth she petitions God for an alternate pathway to salvation; an easier way. And after all is said and done America still nervously boasts and trembles in fear from her lack of preparation for the illegitimate pregnancy she is trying to hide. The world watches as her dysfunctional volcano spews the lava of discontent to the corners of the earth.
Americans cannot save America; not by complaining, not by winning wars, not by voting, not by crowning a king. The truth is that God has truly blessed America and God is continually blessing America. With every iteration of growth our belief in our own abilities raises the level of our disobedience to the point we can no longer hear God from the distance we’ve placed between our itchy ears and His Word. Will God continue to bless America? Is she even listening?
Clue:
“if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)
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