Loving God, Loving America

What has happened to our Constitutional republic? Where is the rule of law? What about “the consent of the governed”? The President and Attorney General pick and choose which laws they will enforce. Faceless bureaucracies and nine unelected, unaccountable men and women in black robes dictate how we must behave and what we must believe, controlling every aspect of our national life. A screaming pro-abortion mob storms the Texas legislature, injecting chaos to prevent a vote against late-term abortions until after the midnight deadline closes the session. A single district judge, secretly gay, annuls the overwhelming majority decision of California voters rejecting homosexual marriage. This can’t be right.

You’re a Christian and a patriot, frustrated and angry that America’s leaders reject God, support Islam, and are moving towards criminalizing Christianity. You love your country and its heritage, but see it being driven towards Marxism and economic collapse. The people doing that damage are breaking all the rules of our political system, so you don’t see how you can “play fair” and have any effect opposing them. They seem determined to steal any remaining freedoms and smash the few remnants of Judeo-Christian morality, trampling on our Constitutional rights with abandon.

But didn’t Jesus say to “turn the other cheek” and “love your enemies”? Do you let them walk all over you? That can’t be right either.

How do you walk as a Christian and a patriot, doing all you can to preserve the America you love for your children and grandchildren, while leaving it all in God’s hands and “being anxious about nothing”?

First, the Christian part.

Get serious about being a Christian. You are a sojourner; this is not your home. God’s priorities are not the same as yours, and when you pray for Him to fix things you may not like how He does it. He scraped Jerusalem to the ground and sent them into 70 years of exile when His people ignored His commands; what will He do if His people today — the church — will not “humble themselves and pray and seek [His] face and turn from their wicked ways”? It won’t be pretty, but He will do whatever is required to get our attention and obedience.

Yes, He has blessed America, and blessed the world through her. But He’s much more focused on your character than America’s survival; nations rise and fall, but He’s training you for eternity. “Love your enemies” and complete, unconditional forgiveness of everyone are commands, not requests; do you not understand what happened on the cross?