5.10.11

Proverbs 14:34 Godliness makes a nation great, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

My Thoughts

When the first immigrants fled to America they did so to worship God.  The did so so that they could worship God not follow the letter of the law of the church...they wanted freedom to serve God and worship God. And that is what the people did...they put God first....they thanked God for what they had...and our nation grew strong and big....our nation grew fast...our nation became the leader among all nations.  Why because we loved God...we put God first.  Each person loved God... each person put God first... each person thanked God and praised God.... As we grew we begin to forget why people fled to America...we begin to enjoy the wonderful things God blessed us with and forgot that God is why we were blessed in the first place. My mother put it best once when she said "There has always been sin, but now people are so proud of their sin." We celebrate everything in America, but God. We celebrate sports of all kinds... we celebrate celebrities. In fact we call them celebrities because we thought they were people to be celebrated.  Our media is used to promote sin... commercials use sin to sell their products. All the wile our nation becomes weaker and weaker...our dollar worth less and less... we owe more and more to other countries making them stronger and stronger. And we wonder what is happening to America... America is moving outside the protection of God by not making God a central part of our lives...we use the laws that were to protect our right to worship God as a means not to honor God at all... we twist and turn the meaning and take God out...when our laws were set up to make God central. We ask ourselves what difference can "I" make?... You CAN make a difference!!..."I" CAN make a difference!! We CAN make a difference..and it's simple.  We can put God back as the center of our lives... we can worship God with more energy than we use to worship football or basketball.... we can refuse to buy products that use sin to sell... we can turn off the stuff  on TV that promotes sin... We can love our neighbors as much in the good times as we have in times of disaster. When America puts God on top... God will put America back on top.... and not one minute sooner.  No we can't make everybody do right... and yes there are always going to be people committing sins... but we can't use that as excuse not to do our very best to be the person God wants us to be... and if we have more people loving God and doing good than we have doing evil and ignoring God...we will grow and prosper again. If we seek first the Kingdom of God everything else will fall right into place.