“For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matt 12:37)
I’m dismayed. I just received an email that should have been encouraging. The message: Getting America Back. Sounds good to me. I opened the message and began to read, my dismay growing with each line. There are usually two ways to do things, I’ve found: God’s way, or the world’s way. This article, though meant as encouragement to Christians, prescribed a very worldly way of “getting America back.”
The message implied that it couldn’t hurt anything to let us Christians pray in schools and at football games. It wouldn’t be earth shattering or foundation shaking. So, why not appease us?
This, in my mind, borders on trickery and manipulation. The world convinces others to let them participate with this method of argument! I’m not gonna hurt anything, they say, so why not let me do what I want?
In truth, isn’t every prayer to our ALMIGHTY LORD powerful? Didn’t God, after hearing Paul’s prayers in prison, shake the earth, shake–break–the foundation, and break down the prison walls? Don’t our prayers, our beliefs, mean MORE than simple actions, simple rituals by which we ease our consciouses? To speak of them as otherwise, even in the spirit of gaining America once more, is false!
Just some thoughts…
Courtney
