America today has reached a crisis point. Our nation is awash in uncontrolled spending and drowning in unpaid debt. Our military might is crumbling under poor leadership.
Most disturbing is the decline in personal and political morality.
You need only turn on nightly programing on you local television stations to understand the crisis in personal morality. Even if you are watching a “good’ program you will be assaulted with unseemly commercials that no one would have dared to air twenty years ago. words like erectile dysfunction and sexual intercourse have become common place along with sexually suggestive advertising. All of this, by the way, because a company wants to sell more of its product, in other words bottom line make more money, at the expense of young ears and eyes that might be watching and listening.
The national crisis in morality is evident in the government’s legalization of the murder of thousands and thousands of unborn BABIES. I Wanted to emphasize BABY because there is all this confusion about the that word since the proponents of abortion (murder of innocents) want to throw around the word FETUS(Greek for Infant) in order to justify their support for this heinous crime against the most helpless among us. They want to have people believe that this is only about a woman’s choice with her body and that abortion clinics are safe ways to obtain this help. When the fact is—-many woman suffer emotional scars the rest of their life for this decision, and many abortion clinics are unsafe places to have a medical procedure of any kind. In my own city this was true–the abortion clinic did not have qualified staff and the place was filthy. A veterinarian clinic is more sanitary.
Why do politicians push agendas that fly in the face of a holy God? Why do they make decisions that seems so selfish? It’s all about pride and greed and getting re-elected to office. This goes for both parties. Too many of our “leaders in Congress and The House cave when it comes to morality versus the vote.
Now we have Monica Lewinsky in the news–again—-bringing up all this smut from the nineties. Isn’t it enough that her wicked relations with a wicked man have affected thousands of young people in their idea of what “sex” is and therefore by deceptive definition of that word have indulged in demeaning behaviors some as young as middle school age? Behavior that is demeaning to girls and will have an effect on their self esteem more than any episode of “bullying” that a child might encounter.
I could go on but you get my drift. I usually would post something like this on my America Unhinged blog but the hymn I found and want to share with you speaks so plainly of the need of nation to be right with God.
Our country is the great country that it is–the shining light to the world–is because of our forefathers dependence upon a Judeo Christian God. Because our basic laws The Constitution and The Bill of Rights were founded on Christian principles. So many Muslim nations want what we have but, even when we set up new governments, achieving the type of freedoms we enjoy is impossible because of their Sharia laws which, unlike Christianity, do not teach tolerance of other religious beliefs besides their own.
My Baby boomer generation has benefited greatly in the freedoms that other generation before us have sacrificed and died for. We are reaping the harvest of peace and “prosperity” that they could only dream of. Unfortunately we haven’t been such good stewards of our inheritance as evident by the leaders today which are of my generation.
I fear our legacy to the next generation may be tainted by liberal unbelief, greed, self satisfaction and moral decay. We stand on the precipice of a looming disaster orchestrated by unsound and immoral decisions that will throw our nation into a tornado of chaos.
The further our nation strays from it’s spiritual foundations the closer it moves toward total collapse. The longer it indulges itself in foolish pride and rejects humility; the closer we come to being driven to our knees in humiliation.
G.K. Chesterton was a journalist known for blending “earth and altar.” He wrote on a huge variety of themes. He had a great sense of humor as evident in his personal testimony. “The Elephantine Adventure in the Pursuit of the Obvious.”
In this hymn titled “O God of Earth and Altar” he calls for unity between the political and spiritual realm. A great reminder that political freedom can only be found when God is its source. “Only as the hearts of political leaders, religious leaders, and citizens are turned to Him can a nation become “aflame with faith and free.”
“O GOD OF EARTH AND ALTAR,
Bow down and hear our cry,
OUR EARTHLY RULERS FALTER,
OUR PEOPLE DRIFT AND DIE.
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not Thy thunder from us,
BUT TAKE AWAY OUR PRIDE. 
From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches
That comfort cruel men.
From sale and profanation
Of honor, and the sword,
From sleep and from damnation,
Deliver us, good Lord!
TIE IN A LIVING TETHER
THE PRINCE, AND PRIEST, AND THRALL
Bind all our lives together,
Smite us, and save us all:
In ire and exultation
Aflame with faith, and free,
Lift up a living nation,
A single sword to Thee.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874-1936
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