The Great American Drift
We are no longer in the era of sending our children to the store to pick up a Gallon of milk. The days where the remnant of Judeo-Christian principles, began leaving after the 1950’s in to the 1960’s with the hippie sex & drug culture liberation. So in the last 50 to 60 years we have lost words like “shame”, “decency”, “doing what is right”, regardless, and the Great American Drift continues away from God.
These remnant thoughts, or ideals were a heritage or legacy of our upbringing, and passed down through generations. We have a culture of working class citizens who live for self entirely sacrificing their children for their prosperity, and then a large influx of immigrant population which is greatly influencing our faith based principles in the United States. All of these factors and the harsh economic times caused by “the love of money / greed”, brings us to the reality of where our country is headed toward, as it drifts further and further away from the God it once acknowleged.
As I came in this morning to work, and the cool air hit me as I walked toward the building I had a heavy heart for our country. This years election is devastating to say the least, when there is a choice between the most liberal socialist Dem candidate to walk the face of the U.S. and the most liberal Rep candidate that we’ve ever seen in the GOP, it leaves you with little earthly hope.
I am always encouraged however when I begin to have these thoughts, to lift my eyes and realize that this is not our home, and as our pastor put it last Wednesday, there will be no politician that will be the salvation of anyone. Only Jesus Christ is the true living hope.
“….. Because I live, you also will live.” – John 14:9
We face the temporal realities of where we live, the evidence or fruit of our society leaving God, man constantly trying to be his own God and under our own authority, and where does this take us every time?
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 6:23
We do not recognize that our own self-indulgence is killing us, harming our families, & children, as we earn our wages of death. Blindness covers our eyes, and the media medicated blanket that has numbed and dulled our minds, has captivated our hearts in anticipation for the next morsel of T.V. gossip/news. The world has made this place so inviting, appeasing every comfort and call of our flesh, and it keys upon the sin of man. We fall prey to all of these enticements in our own lamb like stupidity, drifting drifting, drifting away…. often the church attached to the world verses being a change of society or a symbol of the Anchor we have in Jesus Christ, and the true faithfulness of God.
Most churches with believers have left the inner-city following the society, because it was easier, or more comfortable, there was less crime or social issues to actually deal with, however a few people recently @ FCC have been swimming against the tidal wave of society with one singular assurance, the the Gospel of Jesus Christ we know is the only eternal hope of men & women, and it it is in this one truth and hope that these families transplanted their families into the hood….
This picture was taken on Independence Avenue the same day a family moved down into the NE hood in viewing distance of their home. This is one family of several families who’ve sold their home in the suburbs and moved down to be a part of ministering to the poor and needy in the city, not sewing financially into the the failing world market but sewing eternally into the lives of those captivated by sin and the world.
As believers we have the hope of Christ… so what are we doing with this hope? and how often have we let it out from underneath the bowl to let someone know where the true anchor is when everything else fails? The only thing that will change a society is a change of the heart, and the only one who can change the hearts of men and remove a stony heart and replace it with a heart of flesh is God . . . . Ezekiel 36
I was driving to work through the city today, heavy with the nation yet with amazing hope for the things God’s doing in the city! God is a good God…..
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