Psalm 2 says blessed are those who take
refuge in the Lord rather than in someone or something else. Which begs the obvious question, where do I
take my refuge? And with no higher
power, no greater protection or provider than God, why would nations, or anyone
for that matter, work against Him?
I think of the US, and it seems like we are sliding down the slippery slope of morality. Anything goes. Everything that’s wrong is someone else’s
fault. I see so-called Christians with
no need for God, thinking their liberty in Christ gives them the license to do
whatever they want. Christ’s sacrifice didn’t give us freedom to sin, it gave us freedom
from the power of sin, which means freedom and power not to sin.
So rulers and common-folk alike will be judge by God, and I
think rulers and leaders more harshly because of the added responsibility they
were entrusted with. Those who mock God,
disregard him, reject him will find themselves
mocked, disregarded, rejected by God in return.
There are always consequences to sin. Sometimes they are major, and other times
more subtle like the Lord simply
stepping back and letting people reap what they sow. Unchecked,
unrepented sin only escalates. Once
one Bible-defined sin becomes tolerated, then accepted, then legalized and even
celebrated, what’s next? Which sin is
next in the escalation?
When God steps back
and gives our unregenerate human nature what it wants, all hell breaks loose.
Those who follow God, call Jesus Savior and Lord, submit to His
rule – those are the ones who can ask God for anything and He’ll provide. Imagine
an entire nation devoted to the one, true, living God. That would be a powerful, blessed, abundant
nation indeed. Imagine the amazing victories
they’d have against nations who do not serve the same God.
Unfortunately, so-called Christian nations (and people) are
blind to the fact that they aren’t really Christian. That Christian
values were discarded by the wayside in a quest for power, prosperity, popularity,
and tolerance. You can’t make everyone happy – not sinners and saints alike. When you try, God gets pushed away to make
room for human thinking.
Love is from
God. Tolerance is not. This psalm
talks about the consequences of nations turning away from God and His ways. With nations being comprised of individuals,
the same principles would definitely apply.
Thomas Jefferson once said “In matters of style, swim with
the current. In matters of principle,
stand like a rock.”
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