The Last Vestage Of Winter

Today I watched as rain has been melting away some snow piles that have been created from the snowstorms we had a couple of weeks ago. I also saw the river flowing and rising as it melted the ice pack that has built up from the severe cold temperatures. The temperatures have come up and the weather is warming up to early spring temperatures. I even saw some tulips popping through in our flower garden. Winter has wanted to hold on but slowly the season is drawing to a close. Many are thankful to see spring finally come including myself. But as I thought about it, I was also thinking about something else that seems to ebbing away much like the winter,


I have been watching the news on television and radio and even some newspaper articles that serve to tell me that the godly principles on which this nation was founded on are disappearing quickly today. God was very much at the heart of this nation's founding. He has blessed this nation abundantly over the years because we have remembered that it was His plan for this nation. The sad thing is that as we turn our back on God as a nation we are losing that blessing and beginning to face His judgments. We not only tolerate those things that God hates and calls sin but now we are told to embrace these things. As believers we have always stood for those things that God and His Word said were righteous and worthy. Now even some churches are taking His Word and stripping it of any and all power to transform this world into the image of His Son! Now they want to openly embrace the world's morality and embrace it thus allowing the world to transform the church into it's image! We are hated when we take a stand for righteousness and refuse to accept the world's distorted view. believers have been called to change the world not the other way around. It has to break God's heart when He sees people taking away the very thing that will change peoples' hearts and ultimately change the world. Paul stated it very clearly that the gospel is the power of God for Salvation! Nothing can ever make this world into what it was designed to be by God except God and His power. I believe that it is time we stand up and say with Paul that "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ because it truly is the power of God for salvation". As the days come to an end before God sends His Son to come get His bride, we need to boldly stand up in this dark and dying world and share this powerful Gospel no matter what it may cost us!


I am reminded of the movie "Independence Day" when the president addressed the men who were about to fight the aliens. He said if this was the day they would cease to be that they would not go quietly into the night. Our enemy wants us to go quietly but we need to stand up and shout out we will not go quietly. Let's take back this nation for God and say enough is enough! Remember that we know had the story ends!