Will the cultivation of equality in the form of democracy eventually destroy liberty? -Tocqueville- |
Some things cannot be imagined because some things are unimaginable, and yet sometimes impossibilities become inevitabilities. Let’s start with “true anger and end with honest hope.” Is America in trouble? To ask that question is to answer it. On every major front and in many significant ways, we are witnessing the social and spiritual, as well as corporate and individual deterioration, devastation, and demoralization, if not the outright destruction of the American culture and the Christian Church. This is not negativism or naiveness but simply a heightened sense of reality. But the Christian faith has never been dependent upon or determined by cultural environment. What has always been needed is a dependence upon the Holy Spirit, a disciplining of the flesh, and a decision and determination to engage in, as Nietzsche said, “a long obedience in the same direction.” Now is not the time to traffic in the secular and trifle with the sacred. Now is the time to confirm both our confidence and conviction, corroborated in our courage and commitment to the living Word of God as made known to us in the written word of God. (Jo. 1:1-14; Col 1:15-20) I must admit I have a righteous anger as I see the moral devastation in our country and the demoralizing of the church of Jesus. But I have an honest hope in the promises of God and the fact that He cannot lie. (Hebrews 6:17-18) “And this hope we have as an anchor of the soul a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever...” (Hebrews 6:19-20) Jesus is my anchor and my hope in a world that seems so very hopeless. I hope He is your hope as well. Serving Him with you until He comes for us, Fred |