God Bless America

I was flipping the channels when I noticed a no-hitter was being thrown in the 7th inning of a Major League Baseball playoff game. Well when I was a child baseball was my best friend so I just had to watch to see if a piece of baseball history would be made.

To my surprise after the top of the 7th inning when they normally go to commercial, they did not. Instead they stayed with the broadcast to show the singing of God Bless America at the stadium. At first I was impressed. Instead of making the 5 or 6 figures they could have made during that commercial break they played a song asking our Holy Creator to bless this country.

That’s great……right? Well they panned through the crowd with the camera and I couldn’t help but notice there was no reverence for our Lord Jesus Christ in the crowd. I realized that although the song to me meant “ Lord please let this country come to repentance bring revival and bless us. Let them see that you have a free gift of eternal life if only we would humble ourselves, obey You and see that You only want to give us Your very best. If only we would trust in You, by being obedient, rejoicing in Your free gift of salvation"! The way heaven sounds I could be content being a lamp post their. But yet You offer us to sit beside You eating food we cannot imagine. With perfect bodies that feel no pain. No sorrow, no tears. Oh how I would love to be a lamp post in Heaven, howerver You will build me a mansion. Can you imagine the music we will hear in Heaven. Having ears to hear amazing music, many songs at once and able to enjoy them all. Colors we never saw, and things unimaginable.

However the song at the baseball game was not reverence toward God. It was simply a shallow song between innings. Why is the world blind, happy with their lusts, proud, and not concerned that they are all knocking on death's door? They have the ability to defeat death it's a gift and they don't want it. Maybe if more of us were truly concerned and warned them of the danger they are in (showing we care more about them, then what they think of us) then God could bless America. But with yet another state allowing sodomites to marry (Connecticut), heterosexuals creating thousands of babies out of wedlock, some being murdered in the womb and the lucky ones landing in single parent families, we have to wonder why we haven't been judged already. You can't help but wonder if this financial crisis is the beginning of the end. Thankfully the Lord is longsuffering not willing to let one perish that is willing to repent. How many are left that are willing to repent?

Christian, how often do you think about Heaven. I mean simply seeing Jesus Christ and hearing “Well done thou good and faithful servant”. I can’t think of anything more amazing. It should be the focus of every day. It should be the answer to every sin that comes calling. Moses gave up the pleasures of Egypt to serve God, well we have the pleasure of Heaven waiting for us, how much easier should it be for us, Moses only gave up sin that would make him happy for a season to serve God. We have eternal happiness knocking on our door; how can that compete with any sin for any season here on this Earth.

We are called to be pilgrims, a stranger in a strange land. Our home is in Heaven. Financial crisis….so what, America’s collapse? Maybe luckily I am a pilgrim here. Obedience, walking directly in the will of God will sustain any of it. If you are a Christian stuck in sin and it’s robbing you of the peace of God which passeth all understanding, than just stop it. Make your hope and joy the thought of The Lord coming in the clouds to bring you to eternal paradise. Suffer any pain that might be caused by abandoning sin on this journey. Put your trust in Christ, cry out to Him non-stop if you have to; He will deliver you. Your home is in heaven and this life is but a vapor. Put all your eggs in one basket, and make sure you can get as many people as you come across to put their eggs in it as well. Every eye you look in while traveling this strange land is a soul that could not only miss the joys of heaven, but spend eternity paying for their sins in Hell.