In God We Trust

Psalm 145:1-13 “I will extol You, my God, O King; And I will bless Your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless You, Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts. I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will declare Your greatness. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness. The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The LORD is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. All Your works shall praise You, O LORD, and Your saints shall bless You. They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations.”

With what is going on today in America and around the world, it's not hard to see that people are looking for definition in their life. The clear boundaries of God though His Holy Word and the leading of the Spirit have become foggy & gray as the decreasing knowledge of the Bible and Jesus have opened the door to progressive change from godliness, led by and walking with the Spirit, to the perverted desires of the sinful nature and the unbridled works of the flesh (Galatians 5). Though looking for godly and positive lives, many of our brothers and sisters in ministry see this lack of knowledge of biblical moral absolutes defining “right & wrong” happening in our world today. Searching for meaning to life outside of the Gospel truth do not define true life, but leads to the situation of the blind leading the blind, because that which the Lord says is sin is contrary to our Triune God - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. So people are redefining their life based upon not only what they think is "right" in their own eyes (Joshua 21:25), but what secular humanism propagandizes as "right". The moral compass is on the world, the flesh and ultimately Satan. The loving, secure and safe boundaries lines for our lives (God's commands, statures, decrees, teachings, laws, et cetera found in His holy Word) are not only unclear, but being erased. Tolerance, normalization and acceptance of sin moved public opinion of Jesus from Lord and Savior to just Savior. Intolerance by sin towards Jesus is attempting now to remove the Redeemer of the world as Savior in public opinion and life. Where Jesus has commissioned His followers (the born again Believer, and the Children of God & the kingdom of heaven) to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you."(Matthew 28:19-20), it is the secular society that is evangelizing us, our children and the world to forsake God, Jesus and the Holy Scriptures. Even some, so called, Christian denominations are saying that the Bible is NOT the defining authority on human behavior. Lives are being redefined along with sin and the consequences are the rejection and dismissal of God and the Bible as their Maker's will. The secular message is that the Word of God no longer matters, creating lost souls looking for meaning for life and the definition of love, joy, peace, and happiness that they disparately need and desire in all the wrong places. We know that God is in total control and in the end He wins, but what are His children to be doing to make an influence on this culture today, for Christ's sake on this generation? Shouldn't each and every one of us be telling everyone within our sphere of influence, and to the best of our God-given ability, about the gospel of Jesus Christ - the great Hope of mankind who are seeking definition for life but lost and dying in sin?

Because young people that I am close to are telling me that they are being pressured and tempted by godless friends and classmates to abandon what these Atheist call the "fairytale of a God" and turn their back on a faith in something that they believe does not exist ... to give themselves over to the sinful nature completely. The reality of secular humanism is not something that I can ignore. The darkness of unbelief is not really asking for tolerance, equality, or acceptance. There is a hidden agenda. It is asking for the abandonment of faith in God and the gospel of Jesus Christ by Believers. To eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die (Luke 12:19) is the theme of the day in the darkness of humanist America, and they what to rid this land of the Light of Christ. Morals, ethics, character, manners, charity, and faith in God are under attack. I believe that every professing Christian needs to stand up and join in this spiritual war happening today in America for the hearts, minds and souls of those that need to find the foot of the Cross, where they will not only find their loving Lord and Savior, but the true definition of their life in Jesus Christ. It’s not just a fight for souls for God, but a fight for America!

Mark 8:34-40 “When Jesus had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

In Christ, Brian