I thought I should say something about doing too much in light of recent events or anything for that matter. The other subject of late causing the hysteria in the online community is the dogged determination many have as to the Lord coming in about 12 days from now. What is similar to this in this discourse is allowing a prevailing mindset of emotional fervor to skew our viewpoint. If we think He is coming that soon we could go overboard much as we could in response to tragedy and having a tendency to make preaching the Gospel be a social movement or something we somehow think we can convince the overall trajectory of society to change based on our convictions. Yes; there are things we can do as Christians with our rights and privileges in this nation but God Himself is allowing the signs of the times themselves to draw people to Himself. The opposite; of course is true when things seem to be going as a "normal" day as Christ warns about coming in a time we don't expect much as in the case of the time of Noah (marrying; buying; selling; etc). Anyone can get nostalgic about our country and it's past glories; Christian heritage; etc. and easily slip into an unrealistic viewpoint that our founding fathers had it all correct rather than being a mixture of Deists; some Christians and others who clearly had other motives for their actions. This doesn't mean we can't be as Paul and invoke certain national rights we have if it is edifying at large as a witness so that we maintain freedoms promised from our citizenship. We must be careful though not to idolize anyone; however.
I don't want to overthink this or pretend I have all the answers. Today we remember what happened almost a quarter century ago.
Nations founded on lie cannot stand; There are only two nations which is how God shall establish his kingdom of light. The other kingdom as with Babylon the great we shall see: Mystery of the great whore is revealed when the stone is cast down.(Rev.18.21) Meanwhile tet us feed the flock as instructed by our Lord Saviour.
I thought I should say something about doing too much in light of recent events or anything for that matter. The other subject of late causing the hysteria in the online community is the dogged determination many have as to the Lord coming in about 12 days from now. What is similar to this in this discourse is allowing a prevailing mindset of emotional fervor to skew our viewpoint. If we think He is coming that soon we could go overboard much as we could in response to tragedy and having a tendency to make preaching the Gospel be a social movement or something we somehow think we can convince the overall trajectory of society to change based on our convictions. Yes; there are things we can do as Christians with our rights and privileges in this nation but God Himself is allowing the signs of the times themselves to draw people to Himself. The opposite; of course is true when things seem to be going as a "normal" day as Christ warns about coming in a time we don't expect much as in the case of the time of Noah (marrying; buying; selling; etc). Anyone can get nostalgic about our country and it's past glories; Christian heritage; etc. and easily slip into an unrealistic viewpoint that our founding fathers had it all correct rather than being a mixture of Deists; some Christians and others who clearly had other motives for their actions. This doesn't mean we can't be as Paul and invoke certain national rights we have if it is edifying at large as a witness so that we maintain freedoms promised from our citizenship. We must be careful though not to idolize anyone; however.
I don't want to overthink this or pretend I have all the answers. Today we remember what happened almost a quarter century ago.
Agape; Rich P
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