WIDE AWAKE, YET SOUND ASLEEP

Our world today is wide awake, yet sound asleep. We have all-night television, 24-hour news cycles, television psychiatrists, and non-stop music. The majority of our population walks around staring down at a cell phone screen instead of watching where they're going or engaging others in meaningful conversation. Commercials, sit-coms, reality shows, and internet pop-ups relentlessly and shamelessly traffic unrestrained sexual encounters, homosexuality, and sexual immorality in general for the purpose of desensitizing people to behaviors and lifestyles that are impure, unholy, and forbidden by God in the Bible. This raunchy sexually-explicit programming tempts people at the lowest, degrading level. Have a problem? Turn the channel and see what Dr. So-and-so has to say about it. Got an ache? Grab a pill, get drunk, smoke a joint, or shoot-up. These are the philosophies that, unfortunately, get too many people through their days. Anything that keeps people from being alone with their own thoughts or intentionally thinking deeply on the subject of their choices, lifestyles, and the real meaning of life. Oh no, that would eventually lead them to consider the truth and claims of Jesus Christ, and Satan will not stand for that. Neither, incidentally, will the liberal, left-wing progressives that control mainstream media in all its forms in this country.

Moreover, we have a government filled with gutless, immoral, ungodly politicians addicted to their wealth, power, and status who will believe anything, go along with anything, say anything, and do anything to get elected and keep their positions. These unfit so-called public servants have the repugnant audacity to demand that what has always been right is now wrong and what has always been wrong is now right for the sake of political correctness and maintaining the status quo. Who, in their right mind, would ever believe that, in the greatest nation that has ever existed on planet Earth, we would have to listen to a president and politicians try to convince us to shut up and go along while they make it legal for a boy or man who wakes up with male genitalia but feels like (self-identifies as) a female go into and use the girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers in our schools and all across this nation where our precious daughters, wives, sisters, aunts, mothers, and grandmothers have the right to the expectation of privacy? I’m afraid this is just another in a long list of idiotic changes that our president had in mind when he came into office with the intent to fundamentally change our nation.

Here's a news flash: This is the United States of America. We're a rough and rugged people who know our history. We are still a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people. We are under absolutely no obligation to maintain what is politically correct or go along with the status quo when either or both is blatantly unconstitutional, unbiblical, ungodly, wicked, sinful, and plain stupid. We were founded upon Judeo-Christian laws, teachings, and values, and no amount of reckless, brazenfaced executive orders or systematic, underhanded rewriting of textbooks or senseless, top-down common core curriculum or midnight-released, cowardly threats disguised as guidelines aimed at social engineering in our nation’s school systems can change the facts. We owe our status and prosperity, as a nation, to God and to his providence. Therefore, God, the sovereign ruler and judge of all nations, will have the last say on America.

We, as Christians, believe that the Bible is God's word and is completely sufficient to live by and to measure every thought and idea. America is a constitutional republic, a nation of laws, with guiding documents which, in their original intent, give our three branches of government and body-politic its limits and responsibilities. Even more, we do not cow down, shrink back, and allow bullies with idiotic ideals and ideas run rough-shod over our constitution and over we, the people—the law abiding, hard-working, God-fearing citizens of this great nation—regardless of whether those bullies hold the highest offices in the land.

In the Bible, we find this admonition, "This is what the Lord says: 'Do what is just and right,'" (Jeremiah 22:3) and by God's grace and with his wise counsel, strength, power, and Spirit, that's exactly what we, as Christians, intend to do. Yes, by the wisdom, power, and might of the Spirit of God, we fight the world—the system of evil that has so thoroughly permeated our culture; the flesh—the sinful nature, propensity toward sin, inherited by every single person from Adam and Eve; and the devil—the archenemy of God and his people. Therefore, for the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, the dignity and everlasting good of our nation, and the present and eternal safety of our souls, we better wake up from our terminal addictions to all things politically-correct, technologically-fascinating, attention-grabbing, and humanly-degrading, and cry out to Jesus Christ in true repentance seeking his forgiveness, restoration, and salvation.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II and 34th President of the United States, said, “Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed—else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die” (www.watchmenofamerica.com/OctoberNewsletter.pdf). We better oppose all forms of government-imposed socialism, vote the biblical, reasonable, common-sense values that made America great, and make certain the people we elect to lead us are selfless servants instead of selfish usurpers. May God have mercy on the United States of America.