I must say I am not really surprised America has done what it has done. America as we know rejected God not today and one of their presidents identified that a long time ago. This is an excerpt from Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America's proclamation for a national fast day issued, 30th March, 1863;
"…....We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have FORGOTTEN GOD. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...I am clear in my mind that this is very familiar to everyone too, 'In God We Trust'. It's on the dollar bill. I think with time they will suggest, it's taken off. America might have used Christian values and principles to stand tall earlier in their history but quickly dumped the very principles that helped them. Or was it a deception?? Dostoevsky once wrote that, "If God does not exist, everything is permissible". We believe God is the standard and thus our everything points to Him. Some do not. Thus, if God does not exist in your life, what else can't you do? Some Americans don't support it. But the the supreme law of the land has spoken. Most of those who support that idea, like the CEO of Facebook think it's progress. Yes, America is growing! Others too like me would see it evil. It largely depends on where you are coming from. Though the act is unnatural. I am Christian and on the Lord's side, others are not. Well, as John Lennox rightly noted, nonsense remains nonsense even when spoken by famous scientists" . Similarly, gay rights have always and will always be nonsense to me even when accepted by famous people, powerful nations amongst others.
Everything we see and hear was written down as things that would come. It's clear in my Bible. Though all have sinned but it's sad. It's only the Lord who is righteous: fact. Jesus has always been the way and will always be. Jesus showed the way when he freed the adulterous woman from the hands of her accusers. He did not talk much, He only said, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. He summed up the role of a christian: love your brother no matter what. He was in fact saying, my way is love not hate. You equally are not well, you equally need a physician. Some fornicated, others aborted, others have had extramarital affairs etc. Yet we are the same who condemn our brothers because they are gay. We can hate the act not the people. For, none was created inherently evil. We don't destroy our own, we help one another to unlearn the evil things we learned. We who claim we are followers of Christ are more disappointing. The deception and hypocrisy is too much. We lack the locus and worse of it is that, we approach certain things humanly not Biblically. As Christians, we are supposed to posses certain qualities. Every christian is a change element and thus, the world ought. to have transformed. But we usually are the worse culprits of heinous crimes. How then do we change the world? Some Christians even endorse mob actions because they believe that's the best way to deter others from repeating the same crime. If you're a follower of Christ , at every point in your life you always think God first. That's a Christians reference point and you must never allow the world to confuse or convince you. Just know who you are or supposed to be; Christ like. To know our saviour is through you. Some wouldn't have time to read the Bible and thus, your life speaks volumes. It's you they read because you are a living witness to God. Consider the role of an ambassador. He/She is sent to a foreign country to be a rep to his country . He/She becomes someone who can either do his country good or bad based on the way he/she conducts himself. A Christian is an ambassador of God. Your conduct is key to determining who you're and what you stand for. Let's not pretend but change ourselves first. We contributed to our problems. Albeit being dirty doesn't make void a comment you make related to dirt.
One priest in KNUST once told me that, none of our sins shocks God. However, to man it might always be a shockprise. But today I want you to know this, expect anything from everybody. Man is man.
In sum, the USA can be arguably the most powerful nation and are advanced in so many respects. But hear this from a Christian; You may know a lot of things,but if you don't know God personally, you're missing the first reason you were created"--Rick Warren
God bless y'all.
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