Tonight, I just felt like doing a little blogging from my heart. I may write some things that are not politically correct but these things need to be said. A lot of Americans are feeling like me right now. Our heads are spinning. It's hard to sit by and watch our country dissolve before our very eyes. I really don't think its a republican-democrat thing. I'm not going to blame George Bush, President Obama, the media, or even the government. I think we have pointed fingers at one another long enough. I think it is past time that we are brutally honest with ourselves and face up to the following painful facts. And they are painful. They are painful for me to admit as a Christian, as a Christian leader, and as an American.
1. The deterioration of the American traditional family is the single most destructive force in our country.
I see this every day. It is so sad. Right now in the news we are hearing a lot about the poverty conditions of the people that live in Appalachia. But what we don't see is the rampant drug use, the alarming alcoholism, the high teenage pregnancy, divorce, and the incest in the Appalachian culture. All of this leads to a lack of education, an increase in single-parent families, jail and prison sentences, a high rate of sexually transmitted disease, high unemployment, abuse, and greater poverty. And this is not just the case in Appalachia, but it is true in many other parts of our country. We have the same family problems in America's cities as well as in it's suburbs and rural communities.
One of the greatest causes of the breakdown of the American family today is the lack of "true fathers" in our homes. When I speak of a "true father" I am talking about men that have some integrity about them. Men that provide to the best of their ability for their families. Men who love their wives and their children sacrificially and are constantly putting them first. Men that can be trusted to do the right thing when no one is looking. Men who are not afraid to show some leadership and exercise their God-given authority with the love of God working within them. When these kinds of men function within the framework of a family good things happen. God blesses his wife, his children, his finances, his church, his business, his community, and eventually his nation. I am not just speaking of good, moral men; but I am speaking of righteous men...men that are right with Almighty God. Proverbs 14:34 says, "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to many people."
Did you read the last part of that verse. "Sin is a repoach to many people." In other words, sin is the blame, and brings shame and disgrace upon many people. Either a nation is exalted by the righteous hearts of it's people or disgraced and shamed by the sins of it's people.
America our sins have caught up with us. Whether we are too proud to admit it or not, our sins are shaming us bfore the entire world. We have a great history and a proud past. But the world is no longer judging us by our history or our great feats of the past. Joel 11:17 reads, "Give not thine heritage to reproach." Sadly, this is what is happpening to our once great nation. May God have mercy upon us!
More facts tomorrow.
-Pastor Randy
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