Celebrating America's Birthday ...Joy or Pain...You Decide!

It seems that each year, this day of celebration gets here just a little bit quicker and leaves me a little wearier and a little less hopeful for what lies ahead. We all run hither and yon, wishing all those we know a “Happy 4th”, singing patriotic songs, eating BBQ and watching fireworks. We collectively ask for God to Bless America and then, somehow seem perplexed when gas prices keep rising, crime escalates and our leaders debate in open forum the merits of partial birth abortions, gay marriages and legalized gambling known as state lotteries. How can a righteous and holy God bless this mess that we now call America?

In fact, after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Anne Graham Lotz was queried on the Early show, the host asking, “How could God let something like this happen? Her response was quite profound. She said, “I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And, being the gentlemen that He is, I believe He has quietly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand that He leave us alone?”

And that my friend, unfortunately, is the sad state of affairs that we find ourselves facing in this year 2018. God has slowly and surely left us to our own demise and I am sure that it is breaking His heart to see how far we have fallen from our roots as a Christian nation. A country that He ordained, that began with such great and magnificent promise is sinking fast and unless, God Himself, orchestrates some cataclysmic jolt to all of us….this nation that still prints “In God We Trust” on our money, is doomed to a bitter end. There is one bright and shining star though ….His CHURCH that He ordained to be both salt and light for such a time as this. Let us not shrink from the battles that lie before us, but rather put on the whole armor of God and wage war. We serve the Great Commander-in-Chief who has never been defeated ….and HE NEVER WILL BE!!!!

Proclaim this July 4th as our day of Dependence on the Creator of the Universe….and fight the good fight…..we know the outcome, WE WIN!

MARCHING ON,

WPQ

As we prepare to celebrate our 243rd Birthday, may the words of this poem

resonate within the soul of every American that longs for our return to the God of the Universe...

May He hear our prayers and Bless us once again with HIS GREAT FAVOR!!!!

Poem for the day...

It's great to live in the land of the free

Especially when nothing's required of me.

I don't have to do what others think right;

I'm not required to be a guiding light.

I can go where I want, live as I please;

Take all I want and live a life of ease.

No one can tell my life is a mess

But sometimes I wonder and so I confess....

What if I lived like life is a gem

And I spent my days, focused on Him.

What if I gave with no thought of reward

Put on my armor, raised up my sword.

What if each day I battled those horrible lies

That tells us God's love is not truly life's prize.

What if I gave Him all I could be....

Would that make a difference others would see?

So as we celebrate the birth of our nation

Let us remember the God of creation!

No longer as His can we sit on the fence;

It's time to tell others of our dependence.

To stand and shout at the top of our lungs,

To revel in joy as songs of triumph are sung.

So whether rich or poor, no matter life's station

Petition our God to BLESS THIS NATION!!!

WPQ © June 2018

HAPPY 4TH...MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA!