Who’s shocked that i’m touching on this subject?? Everyone!?! Since it’s been a week from the last time i’ve written to you all I figured i’d let you in on what i’ve been doing… Trying not to let my blood pressure get revved up at the disaster this nation has become. Heart breaking!
I get a magazine from the Billy Graham Foundation called Decision every month and if anyone else gets it i’m sure that you will agree it’s full of great stuff! Kay Arthur always writes a final article in there and the September one was quite thought provoking. I wanted to share.
She was talking about abominations, particularly those of our nation. This talk leading to the problem of sin and the need for repentance as a nation. We have ventured so far from the Lord that in her words ‘truth stumbled in the streets as it did in Jerusalem in the days of the days of the Prophet Isaiah.’ I’d like to leave you today with the last paragraph of her article. It’s something i’ve been thinking about for many weeks now and can’t seem to get off my mind.
I pray that as you think of our abominations as a nation it will fill you with righteous anger. I pray it moves you to tears. I pray it causes us to humble ourselves, turn from our wicked ways and pray fervently for our nation to return to a fear of God. I pray that we will determine that we will discipline ourselves and discover truth for ourselves, that we will go deeper. I pray that we will learn His truth (John 17:17), love it, live it, and hold it forth in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation- and if necessary, die for it. Otherwise America is lost. (This excerpt was borrowed from Kay Arthur’s writing on ‘Cause Her to Know Her Abominations’ in Decision Magazine’s September 2008 issue, page 39.)
I pray the Lord will have mercy on this nation in the midst of our stupidity and lack of adherence to His Word. Kay’s words for me just summed up my thoughts. We have ventured far from a fear of the Lord and need to return to Him in repentance.
I agree with ya! Very well put!