NO HOPE AND CHANGE YET

Back in July I wrote a letter to the editor that was published on 29 July called “Shooting in Colorado comes as no surprise” and ended it with these words, “It is not God bless America as I hear people sing, but it is America bless God. Oh America return back to days of your youth, if not I will quickly come and remove your candlestick from the world,” thus says the LORD.” Now I am sure most readers blew me off and ignored my musings as idle babble, but if you are honest and if you take a closer look at what has happened in our society since then you will discover my words are true as is God’s word. Since the movie theater mass murder in Denver, CO on 20 July 12, seven people were killed by a white supremacist at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, WI on 5 August 12, a guard was wounded by a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocate on 15 August 12 at the Family Research Council office in Washington DC, and then on 24 August 12 two people were killed and 9 wounded on the steps of the tallest building in New York City. Please do not tell me God is not taking His hands off of America. As bad as all of this carnage was, what was NOT reported by our national media was even more chilling. As reported by the Chicago Tribune: since 25 August at 6:00 (CST) four people have been killed and 12 wounded in separate incidents. Between 23 and 24 August 12 (in Chicago) there has been 19 people shot and of those 13 were shot in a 30 minute period. So far this year in Chicago there has been 328 homicides and 2,217 shootings. In 2011 there were 441 homicides. I wonder why these mass murders and shootings have not been reported through our national media outlets? Maybe these mass murders and shootings are not news worthy in Chicago. Maybe this violence has become common place in Chicago’s society? Please do not try to tell me God is NOT taking his hands off of America. My friend God is not mocked, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” (Galatians 6:7-8) If the American people keep shaking their fist at God and His word, in defiance, God will have no recourse than to take His hands completely off of America letting us go after our own desires. These shootings in Chicago (and around America) is not a gun control issue as many career politicians make it out to be nor is it a poverty, education, racial, or even a break down of the family issue as professionals would have you to believe, but it is a heart issue whereby the American people have turned their hearts away from God and His ways and now all God can do is slowly take His hands off of America giving us what we want based on our decisions and choices. The news media is all a twitter with the politics of today, but it does not matter who is in the White House if God is not seated on the throne of America our nation is through. The President is not in charge of America nor is the Senate and House of Representatives, God and God alone hold the keys to life and death for America. God controls everything and God said, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14) Now it is important to know this verse was not written to people that do not believe in God and His ways, but to people who “are called by my name.” And the bottom line (as it has always been) America’s future depends not on the government nor on non-believers, but on those who say they know God and have been called by His name. Will we do our reasonable service: humble ourselves, pray, seek God’s face, turn from our wicked ways? Oh I will vote too and I will vote the Bible; you cannot call yourself a Christian and vote for people who do not believe what God’s word says no matter how much you lie to yourself. God is slowly taking His hands off America we can see this from the death and destruction in our society and we can even see it in the weather patterns; no it is NOT global warming, it God taking His hands off of America and He has not changed His mind yet. Written by David Stahl