Silence is acceptance, Silence is Consent

A couple of weeks ago, I needed to get something out of my car at work. A 30ish something male got out of the car parked next to mine, and I noticed that his license plate had one of those purple heart emblems on it. When the man in it, got out we both walked to the building's entrance at the same time. He smiled and open the door for me as my hands were full, but he stayed outside. I went up to my "office space" and began to get my things together to make my rounds. Being the inquisitive soul that I am, I felt strongly that I need to speak to him. So I set my stuff down and quickly took to the stairs to see if I could find him. He was still outside by the door. I asked him if I could ask him a question. He said, "Of course!" I relayed that I had noticed his plates and wanted to know how he felt about the state of our nation, being that he had fought and had been injured somehow fighting for my liberties and freedoms.  He said it was a mess. I asked him if he was still in contact with people that are serving, and he answered yes that he was. I then asked him, "Given  the information that is finally coming out about Benghazi,"(This was the same week that the hearings with the 'whistle blowers' had started) "how is the morale over there- do they feel like this administration has their backs?" He shook his head and said no. He went on to say that this is bigger than our current president. We talked a bit about the first 9/11 and how things had changed since that attack. I am assuming that was when he enlisted by the age that I presume he is, but I didn't ask. He then asked me if I believed in God. I said yes, that I follow Christ. He told me that he doesn't believe in accidents, meaning we were suppose to be having that conversation at that time. He began to talk about the biblical history of nation of Israel. I understand now that he needed to know if I was believer before he continued because if I was not, anything he would have said would have fallen on deaf ears. After a few minutes of listening to him, I asked him if he had read "The Harbinger". At which point he smiled, and he understood that we were on the same page. (Side note, for a better understanding about what that means, please refer to my blog posts, The Harbinger parts 1-7) As the conversation went on we discussed how where, we are at as a nation is not just the fault of the current administration. That there has been a plan to take down this nation since it's inception and it's dedication to God. When George Washington placed his had on the bible in 1789, his oath and prayer he dedicated this Country to God. In his first Inaugural address, he said,“The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."

I believe at that time, the evil one, satan, lucifer, whatever you would like to refer him as, said 'game on'. And so we as a nation have been on a course of self destruction from within ever since. I don't blame Obama for where we are. I do believe that he has an agenda that is so far from what our founders intended that we Christians often confuse him with satan. There is plenty of blame to go around. We in this country have been blessed. And many of us, in our pursuit of all things good, have taken our hands off the wheel. We have allowed agendas to flood into our governments and become laws that are contrary to God's law and will for us. It's been a slow chipping away at our very foundation. Progressivism is not new, it has really been around at least since the late 1800's. It's just seems new because these progressive ideas have been becoming law, and thus are taking away our liberties and freedoms.

So some of us that have been sleeping are now waking up. Because it now effects us personally. But we are the ones to blame. We have allowed it to happen. And to those that say that we should be silent on matters of so called 'politics', I say the very documents of which our country is based affords us the rights, the responsibility to speak out. To protest if you will. If we don't then we will have much more to answer to when we all stand before God. More to answer to than, looking at someone we are not married to with 'lust' in our hearts and minds. More to answer to than, unkind thoughts, and holding grudges. We were giving a gift from the Lord. The gift of being able to live free, worship free. That's under attack. And we have allowed it. Why was the 'chance' meeting with the stranger who received a purple heart, not an accident? Because he reminded me that the state we are in is OUR fault. Our pride. And we don't even see OUR need for repentance.

We have allowed the 'I'm ok, your ok.' thought become away of life, even in our churches. We have allowed the slaughtering of babies become a right. Recently I was told that I needed to honor our President. I really wish I could. I wish I could honor a man who sponsored a bill when he was a senator that made it legal for doctors that had botched abortions, -and the baby actually lives, -to do nothing to care for them, allowing them to die of hunger, or bleed out. I wish that I could honor a man who remained silent, while the monster Gosnell, stood on trial for decapitating babies that were 'suppose to be aborted', but were born whole and alive, kicking and crying. I wish I could honor a man who can't even send someone from his regime to attend a funeral of a fallen soldier, but makes the time for a phone call to a gay NBA star to congratulate him on his 'courage' on coming out. I wish. But I can't. And maybe I will stand before the Lord one day and answer for that.

I noticed a few weeks ago that here on my blog site, I have a much wider audience than I had realized. According to my stats I have people from Russia, Germany, France, the Ukraine, Romania, and China reading my posts. I don't know exactly where these readers are, but I am honored that they read my posts. I wish I knew what they thought of my countries current state. Are they shaking their heads in disbelief that what was once a free and prosperous country is beginning to look like their countries past, or even present? Are they afraid for us? Or are they disgusted that we are blind sheep headed for the slaughter house?

I will close with two of my favorite scriptures. The first is a Truth from my heart.

"But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15

The second is a Truth from the Lord.

"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land" 2 Chronicles 7:14