Down The Road Called Destruction

A discussion I have had with a few of my close friends is that American is fast on the road of becoming a third world nation.  It is not from the “browning” of America or the immigration policy that is driving us down the road as some would have us to believe.  It is from the loss of the things this country once stood for—honor, character, integrity, and justice.  

As Americans we complain and talk a lot about the problems in America but we cannot find the unity to solve the issues that are destroying our country.  The politicians are set on maintaining division rather than unity.  We are no longer, the UNITED States of America but the DIVIDED states of America.

Over the last decade we have not had the leadership needed to focus on the problems within our country.  We are more concerned about “nation building” or establishing democracy in some Arab country than securing the democracy within our own country. We are spending trillions of dollars to solve the world’s problems while letting our own house fall apart. 

Our country has been divided by the lies from both conservative and liberal politicians and the media.  The biggest problem in this country is the half-truths, intentional lies and political spin that we hear daily from the spin doctors we call news reporters.  We have become a nation that lives on sound bites and from this we feel we are informed.  These sound bites have become the very essence of false hope and change. 

We elect over 500 men and women to give this country direction and they cannot even do the simple task of developing and approving a budget.  Many of these 535 elected officials do not have the interest of America at heart.  They make and pass laws that enable them to profit while denying the same profit to their constituents.  For years they have misrepresented the people who voted them into office.  More often than not, if our political leaders were forced into the private workforce they would not be able to secure a job let alone hold one. Most have never been productive members of society.  They have lived off the taxpayer most of their lives and yet we keep putting these same individuals back in office at the determent of our freedom and security.  It is time to vote them out!

Daily we are told about the need to protect the “middle class” and then invariably the politicians line their pockets along with the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.  The middle class is so busy trying to make a living that we come across as uncaring and uniformed idiots who deserve too be pushed into the class of the poor. We don't have the time or the money to join a protest or lobby for a cause, we are to busy trying to keep our homes out of foreclosure, our cars from being repossessed, and putting food on the table.  Washington does not care what happens to us, we are only the next sound bite to secure their job.  It is time we stop listening to the lies coming from those who want to help us, and put men and women in office who really are honest and care about us. 

Then we have those who want us to rally around America and show our patriotism.  America is not going to fix the problems with patriotism.  Patriotism is not going to fix the corrupt and unethical leaders who for the most part despise the very people they represent.  Patriotism is an illusion; it has no substance and is based on the lies and agenda of the arrogant and elitist manipulators.  Washington's definition of patriotism is "you make the sacrifice, we will make the war."  If Washington truly cared about our military people they would not have them fighting in countries that hate us.  They would bring them home and protect our borders from the invasion that is taking place here. 

If America is to be saved it will not be by those who claim to lead us today.  It will not be by the conservatives or neo-conservatives, or the progressives or the liberals, or the family values professors, it will be by the informed individuals who weigh the balance of justice with truth and righteousness.  The message from God is this, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”  But as long as we remain arrogant and self-sufficient and deny the warnings from the LORD we will eventually reap the whirlwind and destruction.

It is time to focus on the spiritual condition of America.  We have allowed our country to forget the very things that made it a great nation-justice, mercy and caring for our neighbor.  We have sold our national soul for money, power and material gain.  We have become an evil nation in our dealing with not only Americans but with the rest of the world.  We have become a destroyer of countries taking the lives of thousands of innocent people all to protect the wealth of the elites, the manipulators of nations, and those bent on world domination.  We have become the ally of Satan himself.  It is time to heed the words of Paul the Apostle to the church at Galatia in chapter 5 he said,  ¹³ You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh^[; rather, serve one another humbly in love. ¹⁴ For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁵ If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.  ¹⁶ So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.  ¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.  ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. 

America it is time to give the LORD the opportunity help save this Nation.