I believe it is and we Christians can take credit for it. Before you get angry with me please allow me to explain. We who have Jesus have the keys to everything God intends for the human race. He created it and wants it to be His eternal family. From the beginning we have been the target of an adversary who is cunning and devilish. His name is Satan. Before that name was given to him he was Lucifer one of the angels created by God. He wasn’t an “everyday” kind of angel but actually the most beautiful of all. We are told in the scriptures he led the angels in praise of God.
He fell when his pride convinced him that he could take God’s place. A war followed with God’s faithful angels overcoming those follow Lucifer. God, for reasons of His own, cast him down to earth. We first see him in the Garden of Eden where he successfully tempts Eve to eat of the fruit forbidden by God. This fruit was capable of giving mankind the knowledge of good and evil as God said. Until she and Adam ate of it they were as innocent as doves. Most of us have read or had read to us the Bible where we see the results of their sin. We are still suffering for it as their descendents.
God had a plan for bringing a number of us into a relationship which would never end. To do it began with a man by the name of Abraham. This man believed God and obeyed Him to the point of placing his only son on an altar for a sacrifice. God allowed it to the point the knife was raised to end Isaac’s life. This was a scene that later would be displayed on a cross at Jerusalem. Jesus died their as the sacrificial Lamb. As He died His Blood was spilled for us. This ultimate sacrifice by Jesus is Love in the highest degree. When we surrender our lives to Him He takes it and washes us as clean as new snow. Now forgiven and included in the family we are to go out and make disciples for Him. We haven’t done it. We have sat on chairs and pews while our ears have been tickled with a religious feather.
Because of our failings Satan has raised up a family far larger who are bent on killing not only God’s children but anyone who gets in their way. Our prisons are filled with murderers and some are being released to let more in due to lack of space. Gangs roaming America now kill at will with little to stop them. Drugs are used everywhere including in the homes of the people who claim to be Christians. While using they do things that shame God and make a mockery of their statements of “Loving the Lord”. Yes we are watching the downfall of America and few seem to know what to do next.
I can tell you and it is not an option. We who have Jesus must become Jesus centered and filled with the Holy Spirit. Jesus told us He was the True Vine and we are the branches. As we live in Him doing the will of God fruit will appear on the branches that can win the lost to Him.
This fruit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, longsuffering, temperance and faithfulness. Just as an apple tree doesn’t have to strain to make apples appear neither do we have to stress out doing the works of God as revealed by the fruit. It is a matter of simply living for God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Every good thing that happens occurs because He is in us. It is Jesus who is bringing glory to the Father. We are just the temple of the Holy Spirit. If we allow ourselves to get religious we will fail in the same way some trees bear fruit and some don’t. We must stay under the rain of God and do all that we do to please Him.
If enough of us were to do this a great revival would sweep America. Our children and grandchildren would be the main beneficiaries for the love of God would cover and protect them from the evil one. It is time to start and tomorrow is too late. Do you want to be one who “saves” America? Tell God and allow Him to lead you into a relationship with His Son Jesus. He will do that for He loves you and cares more than you will ever know.
In His Service,
Capt. Ben Marler
captben61@gmail.com
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