"Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork automatically are tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to the one standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship." - A.W. TozerOnly by looking to God will we regain unity in the church and in our nation. No political leader can restore that unity, but at least one presidential candidate is striving against that goal by plotting to disrupt our worship. Thank God His power is infinitely greater than any man's or woman's on earth.
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (Ephesians 4:1-6)
The Civil War in the U.S. and the abolition movement led by William Wilberforce in England was ignited when humble men looked to God for truth and direction. Freeing the oppressed is a Biblical mandate. It was never merely a human movement. God brings unity.
But when we rewrite the Constitution (using case law that interpreted an IMPLIED Constitutional right to privacy to include dominion over one's body as greater than the explicit right to life and superseding the 12th, 13th, and 14th amendments) to justify murdering the unborn (which has now been expanded past Roe v Wade to include the most barbaric practice of partial birth abortion at the end of pregnancy), we have lost our moral compass.
When we allow the injustice by one to justify the senseless murder of heroes and violent rioting in the streets, we have lost our moral foundations.
When we allow criminals to go free because corruption is too far reaching to contain and indicting one would bring down the entire Obama administration since all knew about the illegal email server and continued to exchange classified information with her through that server, we have lost the law that holds us together.
When we continue to let our children have free TV viewing and pay for cable TV after learning that in just the two years between 1997 and 1999, violence increased 86%, sexual content went up 77%, and foul language rose 58%, we have turned our attention away from the moral decency upon which our country was founded and chosen to worship smut instead.
When we dishonor our veterans, the flag, or the national anthem, we dishonor the courageous heroes who suffered and/or died to protect us and spitefully put the liberties which made America the beacon of hope for all the world in jeopardy.
When we are more concerned with normalizing psychological ailments, even if it means putting women and children at greater risk of abuse or PTSD, we are steering those in most need of help away from resources that could bring them lasting healing and freedom and instead leading them down a path that is much more likely to result in suicide. We have traded true compassion for a selfish desire to be accepted by a lost and deceived society.
When we continue to support US leaders who are arming ISIS and accepting millions of dollars from countries supporting ISIS, who knew about pending terror attacks and refused to let the FBI stop them - and then refused to acknowledge that ISIS was behind it when ISIS took credit for it, we have lost sight of both the truth and what is right. We have sold the lives of the innocent for fleeting money. Their blood guilt is on our hands.
When we suppress the poor to keep them poor and to keep them from personal independence so as to buy their votes for selfish gain, we have lost the fundamental value of love for our fellow men.
When we would rather be slaves to a corrupt government than take personal responsibility for ourselves and our fellow man, we have turned away from the chief goals of our founding fathers and have chosen socialism which quickly becomes communism over liberty and justice for all.
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1:21-32)
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