http://youtu.be/IkRxTa1a7qc  Who is correct, our President, who has emphatically stated to the world that this country is not a Christian Nation or the evidence which is so readily available to the contrary?

We have sat long enough upon our pride, upon our security, upon our complacent unwillingness to disturb our own established wealth and comfort sense.  Our way of life has been ebbed, misconstrued, challenged, maligned and misrepresented to a nation crying out for the safety and security intrinsic to the constructs of this once God blessed nation.  Idle worship, idol worship and ideal worship have found substitutional grandeur on the altar of a nation that has become unacquainted with their Creator.  The Lord calls us to stand with faith and courage in the ominous shadow of enemy siege, yet we have sat, stooped, cowered and fled when we should have stood our ground for Righteousness’ sake.  The answer to this unmitigated surrender, ironically is not to stand or remain in repose but to firmly deposit the weight of our collective faith upon our knees at the foot of that Old Rugged Cross.

The only way forward is to take a step back and redirect our steps to the skinny path.  This broad avenue, illuminated in gold brocade and the roars of onlookers has an eternal destination irrevocably separated from God.  Appearances have fooled the fancy and the famed throughout history but a poor man knows the heart of a generous man shines through all shrouds of false pretense or hypocrisy.  We have survived and prospered and been globally admired as a nation of people unwilling to follow that conformist’s road, yet we have fallen in lock step with those who ignore the missteps of historical consequence.

Let us define ourselves by our ability to foresee the destiny of current trajectory and re-chart our heading toward those things which are right and true.  Let us look to the promise land to which God has told us focus.  Let us admire Christ and conform ourselves to His likeness.  Let us be different as this is what made us great from the outset, our belief in something greater than self, something incorruptible by the greeds and ambitions of foolish folly.  Let us fall upon the Rock of Ages for salvation, sustenance and again embrace our national identity as a people fully capable of justice, mercy, grace and faith.  All that makes us great we borrowed from Almighty God and made it our own.  We should not sell our heritage for shadows, our bounty for vapor and sensory fulfillment.  Our birthright is eternity there is nothing of greater value.  Choose Love, Choose Life, Choose Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, our King.  Amen.