Preppers
are people who think that America is about to turn into a lawless
free-for-all; they therefore stock up on food and supplies and head for
remote sites and bunkers to wait it out. Then come the leavers, who
think it's time to choose another country to live in, or some distant
island in the sea.
America is at a tipping point, and while those who think it's time to hide or leave may not be wrong, no one would dare call them patriots or fighters. Is this the right way to deal with the day? Has a serious voice for good lost its power, and does every vote count for nothing?
Even in this land of 350 million souls, we can take comfort that the God who watches the six billion people of this planet has not lost his grip. The Bible clearly says that he counts the very hairs on the heads of every last one of us (Mt 10: 30).
God knows the way of a nation as clearly as he knows the ways of an individual, and he responds to us on the basis of that knowledge, according to the great prophet Jeremiah.
America is at a tipping point, and while those who think it's time to hide or leave may not be wrong, no one would dare call them patriots or fighters. Is this the right way to deal with the day? Has a serious voice for good lost its power, and does every vote count for nothing?
Even in this land of 350 million souls, we can take comfort that the God who watches the six billion people of this planet has not lost his grip. The Bible clearly says that he counts the very hairs on the heads of every last one of us (Mt 10: 30).
God knows the way of a nation as clearly as he knows the ways of an individual, and he responds to us on the basis of that knowledge, according to the great prophet Jeremiah.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. (Jer 17: 9, 10)If an individual's life is ordered by God, why would we assume that he is not interested in the lives and the pathway of an entire nation? America has been a light to the world, guided by the principles of the Bible, the Constitution, and men and women who believe that freedom is a gift from God to be enjoyed and used to create both a refuge and a place of great opportunity.
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