A personal study I am currently doing on God and Government led me today to read Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26. Both these chapters deal with the blessings associated with a nation that obeys God and the curses of a nation that disobeys God. It was an eye opening, enlightening read, to say the least.
It was chilling to see what is and has been happening in America in comparison to what I read in these chapters. Please take the time to read them for yourself.
We, as a nation, need to heed God's wake up call because I would say we are definitely falling under the category of disobedience/curse. I'm not the only one who has felt that God's wrath was our course in these last few years especially but these two chapters really put teeth to that thought process.
Here's a few verses I found particularly chilling due to current events happening in America today.
Deut. 28:43-44 The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.
(American use to be a lending country but we are now the country with the most debt, far outpacing any other country in the world. China holds the majority of our debt.)
Deut. 28:49-50 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.
(Sounds like the health care plan debate - I'm not sure that is what God meant here but it struck a cord with me.)
Lev. 26:40 But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers - their treachery against me and their hostility toward me, which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies - then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Issac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
We can find hope and comfort in the fact that God does not abandon us to our sins completely. He remembers his covenant with us, even though we have rejected it time and time again. He punishes with the intent to turn us back to him. His anger is instructive and meant to save us by getting us to stop, repent, and turn back to him. He loves us and is faithful no matter what. If we repent he is there to forgive and embrace us again.
Christians, we need to rise up, ask for forgiveness, and begin to turn this country back to a nation that worships God and puts him as our King. We need to uphold our end of the covenant and serve only the One, True God and live in obedience to him.
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