Matthew 29:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit.
I recently found out that
some countries in the world are sending Christian missionaries to the United
States.
At first, I was appalled,
then I understood because it sort of reinforces what I believe about US
Christianity. We aren't the "best" Christian country in the world
today and we have not been for many, many years.
Here, we have an American
Christian worldview. We celebrate the US before we think about the church or any
celebration we might do there because of the pride we have in this great
country.
It is the patriotic thing
to do.
Now don't get me wrong, I
love this country and we are supremely blessed to live here and from an
economic and freedom standpoint there is no country better than us.
But we have been losing
our way for many years and it is culminating because of materialism, growing
secularism and humanism, our being too comfortable, and sexual immorality that
has existed in some form here since the beginning of our country.
We have a capitalist
economy, mostly, and it has been great to us. We are one of the richest
countries in the world and most of us have economic opportunities that people
are willing to die to attempt getting here just as our ancestors did. But that
has helped us become somewhat heartless in our worldview. We usually rely on
God only when we have experienced a health or death issue. We don't have to
think about our faith, in fact, our faith often is of convenience and not of
necessity and a private thing that we don't feel comfortable sharing.
We have removed God from
almost all avenues when it comes to government, schools, etc. We remove God and
biblical morals from schools and as much as we can in every way and then wonder
why the country continues to descend into an immoral crevasse. Child abuse,
molestation, shootings in neighborhoods/ schools, and for vengeance, etc are on
the rise. Why? We are a miserable country for having so much, why is that?
Because we continually try to fill a hole that we all have in our soul with
things that are worldly and it never accomplishes our goal which causes more
misery.
We have justified sin for
so long in this country that the immorality from pre-marital sex to
divorce to other sins are having the stigmas removed and even worse,
glorified. And we do not show love for those who have done these things using
judgment or condemnation without affection.
We want to be comfortable,
I get it, I really do. After church, I cannot wait to take my nap after eating
a lunch that costs more than a week’s wages in most of the world, but we have
got to strive to be better. I have got to strive to better.
We have to rely on God
every day and try to remove ourselves from being our own god because we are
nothing without him!
And sadly, I have found
this truth not here in the USA, but in third world countries where our
arrogance looks at, points, and says "poor things have nothing" when
in reality...they have so much more than us.
Total reliance on and total
devotion to God.
