Heal our Land

The people entered into an oath to walk in God's law as given to Moses and do all the commandments of the Lord, our Lord and his judgments and statues. (10:29) They also agreed not to allow their children to marry outside of their beliefs, not to buy or sell on the sabbath, to bring their offerings to the Lord, to tithe, and not to forsake God or His house. Each was given an assignment on where they was to live and what they was to do.

As I read these chapters, I ask God to let me know how these words relate to us today. Some people will say that we live under grace today and not the law so these chapters in the Old Testament do not apply to us. Yes, we live under grace but if God didn't expect us to learn from these chapters, He would not have given them to us. We need to remember the statement; "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it."

When the Israelites lived as a nation for the Lord, He blessed them. When they strayed and served other gods, then they faced the consequences. Our nation is like that today. God has blessed us when we followed Him and we to have suffered the consequences when we turn away from Him.

There are those today who would have you believe that our nation was not founded because the people was searching for a way of life in which they could worship God. They want to rewrite history and tell us God didn't enter into the picture. This simply is not so. God has ALWAYS been a part of our Country. Our fore fathers fought and died for the right to serve God. God is mentioned in our Declaration of Independence, in our Constitution, and on our buildings in Washington. He is on our money, in our pledge to the flag, as well as our national anthem. Congress always began each session with prayer. Our country's roots are deep in serving God.

As towns were started, two of the main buildings to be constructed as soon as possible was the church and the school. Often they would be the same building. Just about everybody in the town would be at church on Sundays serving God.

I can still remember when the stores would close on Sundays so people could go to church. (God's instruction to the people in Chapter 10 was neither to buy or sell on the sabbath.) Then one day, a major chain decided to open on Sunday. Soon other stores followed them to stay in the competition. Yet, Truitt Cathy has never gave in and closes on Sunday and God has blessed him for it. I know I am guilty of shopping on Sundays. The grocery store is on the way home and it is so convenient to stop. I do it without even thinking if it pleases God or not.

The thing is we are allowing others to tell us it is OK to do the things in direct opposition to what God tells us. God is no longer blessing our land. He has not completely turned His back on us. I believe it is because there are Christians who pray everyday for our country.

We have a leader that says we are no longer a Christian nation. The fact that he would say that, gives credence to the fact that we were founded as a Christian nation. This is very scary to me. It is also something I take great offense to. Lord, let not this ever happen. As we are coming up on the 4th of July, our nation's birthday, let us turn back to God as the Israelies did and ask Him to heal our land.