INDEPENDENCE DAY

Independence Day

Independence day. A day that represents freedom. A day that signifies and exemplifies what America stands for and a day that is set aside to remember what our forefathers fought died and stood for. Yet when you look across our embattled land we see through flesh stained glasses people committing atrocities against each other. Abortions , Gay marriage, Divorces, Incarceration, Drug use, the list goes on. It goes on in more controversial issues the consequences of these things spread out and carry penalties to 4^th and 5^th generations on down the line.  We have a national debt. That exceeds the trillions. We have teen pregnancy out of control which imprisons families into poverty. Houses being foreclosed on left and right. Unemployment rates on the rise. This is our country the land of the free?  Freedom of what? Were more free in our country to today then ever to get food stamps and social services and benefits then ever. Recently it was asked of people in my Fellowship to write briefly on a wall what we love about our country. And people when challenged to do such a task might not be referring to the country we live in today. But the country that we were once before.

We once were free to express our faith in public forums. That right has been replaced by political correctness and the agenda of the far left to restrict or Christian heritage from being expressed because we might offend the atheist Muslim or Homosexual. The complete perversion of our cause now because we no longer get to state our cause but they do for us on extreme political tv shows and they use bazaar examples of one guy burning Korans to say that Christians are against Muslims and homosexuals. Which is completely false. Real Christians are no such thing we are against the acts of homosexuality but we stand for the homosexual and pray with and for them in love for their repentance and salvation because our savior hung for them. Yet if we do this in public we can be arrested in some places now.

We have allowed our freedoms to ruin us in other areas. Were free to divorce and divorce we have and this has caused tremendous strains on our economy too. LOOK IT UP FOR YOUR SELF. And because we have not honored marriage we have no credibility to say even what it means the enemy has hijacked the word which is a biblical word and perverted and now six states have legalized gay marriage. Our freedom to divorce has destroyed the fabric of the Christian home and ruined family trees everywhere.

Freedom to choose life or death abortion or no abortion…the economic strain abortion has caused to me is painfully obvious. A whole generation of people have been disallowed from pursing goods and services because we have taken our freedom to choose and used it to choose wrong.

These three freedoms the freedom to live without being killed at conception the freedom to pray and express our real faith which is love the freedom to stay married to one woman and raise up Godly offspring has been stripped and replaced by the counterfeit.

Yet today I am so thankful because today I am still in a country where writing this does not get me thrown into prison. Where even if most Christians think it to be extreme exaggeration I am free to still disagree in love and say that I am free to repent and live my life free to love and express it the way God tells me too.

I read in the bible about a whole nation of people who prayed for independence and were granted it but knew not what to do with this independence. And eventually even wished they were still in bondage..

We can make choices with our independence and freedom that consequences lead straight to bondage. When we stopped fearing God and started serving mammon we made choices that did just that.

Today my challenge to all who read this is to seek true independence by repenting. Let our House get cleaned and circumcised today. There is no better freedom then the freedom found in Christ. Happy Independence day to all who choose to do just that. Its never too late and were never too far.