Where is Our Hope

If you've been following this blog at all, you know I'm a conservative - might even be called ultra conservative - and my faith is in Christ Jesus.

I received two email messages this morning that forced me to my knees.

The first was from a Christian based conservative political organization. It was a plea for donations to help them initiate a plan to turn the now strongly democratic liberal government around. Every so many lines of text painting a bleak future for our nation due to the coming age of the most liberal president and far left congress ever, there was another plea for money (embedded with a link to the donation page of their website.) As I was reading, the question I kept asking in my heart, "what's your plan and how will it change anything when the left has such a stronghold in our government?"

The next message I read was a daily Scripture from KLOVE radio:
And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you. ~ Psalm 39:7

That, my friends, is providential.

I fell to my knees and began praying for our nation, for each and every Christian to seek Him. Our problem is not in our government. I've been saying this for months and I'm going to keep harping on it because until we admit our sin and get right with God, nothing is going to change. I don't care how much money you donate to how many organizations, they can't help us if we don't help ourselves. Where is our hope? Not in FRC, Focus on the Family Action, Jay Seculo, or any other conservative activist network. Our hope is in God alone. My ONLY hope is in God.

What am I saying? Get the mirror out. What am I doing? I'm looking on the inside. I'm asking God to show me where I've been wrong and guide me along spiritual lines according to His plans. What have I done to further our cause? What more could I have done to make a difference? Perhaps when I felt discouraged that I had no money in the bank to donate to my party of choice, I could have emptied my piggy bank and sent all I had. Would it have mattered? I don't know. What if we'd all emptied our piggy banks? Would an extra ten or twenty dollars from a few hundred thousand of us have better promoted a candidate who shares our Christian values? I don't know but these are questions worth considering.

Now I want to speak directly to those in our nation who put aside Christian values to vote for the first semi-African American President. Ask yourself, with God as your witness, why you did that? Was it because of his color? His heritage? If so, do you see how racist that is? I don't care if your roots are Irish, Latino, Kenyan, British or Native American - if you voted color, not principles, you're a racist.

Does the man you voted for represent Christian values of righteousness, holiness, faith in Jesus as our Savior; protection of the unborn; strength for our military to protect us from foreign terrorists who wage a holy war against our nation; a plan to free people from enslavement to government aid and help them become self-sufficient citizens with purpose and hope?

What are your values? Are your values those God points to in Scripture, or the desires of the world? Where is your hope?

Is your hope in your television, news media, a man in the white house, government aid, or Jesse Jackson?

Is your hope in God?

Get out the mirror and seek the truth about yourself. It's time to turn to God and ask, "am I who You've called me to be? Show me Lord. Open the eyes of my heart!" Repent. Turn to God and seek His kingdom for then everything else will fall into place according to His purposes and plans for us.

If we don't start taking a serious look at ourselves, admit our sins and turn around, I promise you, there will be no blessing for America. We will continue in this moral, ethical, racial, eddying cesspool that is slowly bleeding out the soul of our nation.

I had another thought as I was praying and considering this mess. Those men and women who first emigrated to America to be free of the religious oppression of their homeland, came here to establish themselves in the tenets they held dear. Free to choose their own hearts regarding faith and government. Yet this nation is now becoming the same oppressive machine our founding fathers fled. Whether it's the King demanding we follow the Church of England or the President demanding we have the right to infanticide, we the people are oppressed by governing rule because we have failed to put our hope in God.

There is only one place to flee to friends. As much as I'd personally like to retreat to a deserted island somewhere and start all over with people of faith who are not infected by the moral swill of this perverted land, guess what? Because of our pride, our apathy, our lack of faith, our SIN, in time we would be just as far from God. Our only hope is to flee to the heart of God. Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added...

And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you.

Be still - spend some time reflecting on the nature of God, who He is, what He's capable of, what He desires from you. Don't complicate things as we are wont to do. Just seek Him. When He reveals His simple plan, it's almost laughable. Obey. Get your eyes off the spec in your brother's eye and deal with the pole that holds you back. Look inside. Seek God. Sh, be still.

Our only hope is in God.