Five months after the terrible events of 9/11/2001, you can still see the common signs and hear the slogans and sayings almost screaming "God Bless America".
STOP, America, God has blessed you – when was the last time America Blessed God?
Throughout all the terrible things, and horrific times that our country has gone through – God has always blessed her. Through the bombings of churches and homes of innocent people, God has blessed America; throughout the mass displacement of people from their rightful landholdings, God has blessed America; throughout the numerous incidents and instances of racial unrest and pure hate crimes, God has Blessed America; throughout all the legal pleadings of the "separation of church and state," God has Blessed America; when America stood by and let prayer be banned from school, God still Blessed America!
When was the last time America Blessed God? When was the last time America corporately got together -- shut down our businesses for one day and Bless the God of our prosperity!? When was the last time America decided to come together and have empathy for those around us and honestly try to help someone else, in an effort to bless the God that created us prior to and other than September 11, 2001?
Right now America is running around like a child, whining and crying wanting daddy to give us a treat, wanting Him to fix our "owie".
It’s time for those in leadership, especially clergy, to stop with the pampering and sugar coating and tell God’s truth. Hear me, 911 had nothing to do with the "sins" of New York or those who were affected. It has everything to do with leadership – especially clergy, doing and being about what God has commanded of His people.
There’s too much soft shoeing and tiptoeing, the church is trying to be all things to all people. Not the church institutions or denominations, but the people that make up the body of the church. We adjust the rules and laws, the scriptures and ideals to suit our need at the time. We are falling for the second biggest lie of the enemy, be tolerant, and in the process the Nation is going to hell and no one seems to notice. Compare Romans 1:1-32 to what is going on today. Society is saying, for instance, homosexuality is all right, be tolerant – so the church begins teaching it’s okay God still loves you. That’s a half-truth, therefore a lie. Yes God does love the person involved in the homosexual lifestyle, yet He despises the homosexual act. Woe to those who molest children, woe to those who are supposedly "of the cloth" and take advantage of their position and standing and molest those in their care!