Years ago, when I was learning to fly, I read these words of wisdom from a highly experienced airline pilot. He was writing of the dangers of flying into inclement weather. He said, “Remember, the weather is not what someone forecasts. The weather is what you actually see through the windshield.”
I have found this to be good, life-saving advice over the years – and, not always just for aviators. So, I also use this realistic approach in my everyday life. I do this by assessing reality according to what my mind’s eye can actually see through the windshield of the present moment.
And certainly, it is now a very scary picture. Its dire implication is that, if our present course is not quickly amended, a societal “nightfall” is dead ahead for America. And, it would now seem so close as to be all but unavoidable. Not easy to hear, I know. Nor is what you are about to read. But I would urge you to
take seriously what follows. If you will
prayerfully weigh these sentiments, God will confirm to your honestly open
heart their truthfulness and accuracy.
So, already, we are a deeply divided and greatly weakened nation – fully immersed in a dark, downward spiral which now touches every facet of our society. We are being invaded daily through our southern border. Our government has become much more a threat than a help. Unelected bureaucrats and political operatives within that government are daily plotting and actually implementing the end of our way of life.
The rule of law is crumbling, as is the integrity of our elections. Prices now soar as the worth of the dollar free falls. Our judicial and educational systems are widely corrupted by woke and socialist agendas. And, both within and without, our gathering enemies are now brazenly assuming an openly militaristic posture.
For four long and grueling years now, we have endured this heart-breaking national decline. And, these years have sorely tested us – and test us still. But even now, even with all of these stark indicators (and many more), the populace of America has not yet widely understood the more fundamental cause of it all.
To our great embarrassment, our national gaze has far too long remained widely fixed on what has been the leadership fiasco of the present federal administration. But, in fact, that dismal failure is but a downstream result of the more fundamental cause of our woes. The real headwaters of our rapid national disintegration actually flow from a distinct event which has occurred within the spiritual realm. That event, as stunning as it may sound, is God’s abdication of His divine guardianship over this nation.
The historical pages of the Bible actually hold clear accounts of such divine retreats involving the nation of ancient Israel. And, the pattern was always the same. Those times of God’s back step from that national relationship were always precipitated by the wide and willful misbehavior of that nation.
And, resulting from our own national misconduct – namely the pervasive secular insolence toward God and the widespread religious pretense within the American Church, this form of divine discipline has also now come to us. Its beginning point is easily marked by God’s non-intervention in that disaster that was our 2020 presidential election. And, the great significance of this divine absence from our national life is clearly underscored by how quickly this nation’s political, economic, and social decline has occurred since.
But it would seem that this coming election and the possibility of obtaining a vastly more enlightened administration, may indicate the offer of a divine olive branch. It could be that this possibility indicates God’s willingness to forgive us and resume His precious national guardianship.
But certainly, this can only happen if we do, indeed, face up to the existence and seriousness of this fissure in our relationship with Him and broadly turn from those chief causes. Again, those causes being that growing secular disrespect and the pretentious shallowness within the Church.
So, the larger truth concerning these last four years is that they were divinely used to clearly demonstrate to the nation the harsh reality which emerges when God takes such a corrective back-step. And now, as a nation, we are better equipped to understand what is really at stake as the nation faces this live-or-die choice in this truly do-or-die moment before God. Thus, in this crucial moment of real consequence, the essential question becomes, “Going forward, will we choose to be a God-respecting or God-alienating nation?”
And history now waits to actually mark its record. And, so must we also wait to see how this present-day America will treat this possibility for reconciliation with God and a national healing.
Will we callously choose
to carelessly continue with our God-offending behavior – thus allowing the
present trend of unfolding events to actually push us into that already
imminent and irrecoverable societal nightfall? Or, will we freshly
recognize the crucial importance of God's guardianship over our national life?
