Great is His faithfulness!!!!
Praising God that His faithfulness is not based upon ours….. God has done a great work in American believers (regardless of the outcome of this election!)…. He has awoken in us the recognition of our sin as a country and individually, and He has used this election season to bring us back to Him on our knees. Praising Him for this trial which has revealed to us our incredible and desperate need for Him.
Yesterday, I had a conversation with a woman – a fellow believer – and her anger, her despair over our country and her loss of hope for our country’s future saddened me. “Bring on judgement, we deserve it”, she shared.
I, too, believe we deserve judgement….. but praise God that He is so very gracious! He uses our sin, our unfaithfulness, and our suffering and trials to bring us back to our knees and dependence on Him. Over the last years, I have seen us believers only remembering God when it is convenient – or when we have a personal need. This past month, I have seen people returning to Him — recognizing YAHWEH as LORD of all. I have seen people who have been lukewarm and who have forgotten Him in their daily life – praying only incidentally and infrequently – crying out to the Lord incessantly – both personally and corporately. We are now begging Him for His mercy and His divine intervention in the mess that is us and our nation. We have sinned – against our holy God and against the awesome gift He has given us in our America the Beautiful. We have not stood for Him in our personal life…. nor have we stood for Him in our communities, or in our nation. We have been willing to stand silently aside as our families and our country have descended into a cesspool of sin and horrible depravity. We have not spoken out, but have been willing to stand by – to put our “heads in the sand” – rather than being willing to stand out and speak out against the terrible sins of our country, and our families. We have bought the lie that we as a community of faith have no power and no voice. THAT IS A LIE FROM THE PIT OF HELL!!!!
Yes, we deserve judgment, but we serve a God Who loves His people, and Who is Sovereign over everyone and everything. Praising Him for the awesome gift of suffering and trial! Our only hope is in God/Creator, El Shaddai who is in complete control of all things. I am so grateful for the ugliness of this time in our history. It has shown me our helplessness (both individually and as a country) to stand against the enemy without the LORD. AND it has shown me His incredible power – He has the power to sustain us or to bring us down. He has the power and puts “on the throne” whomever best serves His purposes. If His purpose is to bring us to ruin for our sin – the sin within, and that which we have exported to every corner of the earth – so be it. If it His purpose is to show mercy – and to have us recognize Whom it is Who is showing mercy, and to put Him on His rightful throne in our nation and in our personal walks with Him – so be it.
Praise the LORD!!! We do not grieve as those who have no hope… Our hope is in the LORD, and we live in the sure promise that we, as His beloved and redeemed people, will someday be with Him in His glorious and awesome kingdom here on earth when He comes to rule and reign in majesty, holiness and sovereignty. Come, LORD Jesus, come!!! Hallelujah!!!